Approximately 1/3 of the Cosmetology Instruction Textbook subject matter pertains to Anatomy, & Sanitation.  State Boards are given. Licenses are received.  Public service industry sanitation is a constant challenge.  The skills learned in Cosmetology School are designed to permanently implant not only sanitation to protect the public but ourselves a well.  The Cosmetologist know well the super bugs are killed by Steam, Barbacide, Formaldahye, and Alcohol.  They are trained to protect themselves with face mask.  These are skills that are never forgotten. These skills are used not only at the salon/spa but at home as well.  Mandating Continuing Education for License Renewal would only add to the unemployment in VA.  Salon owners know all too well it is increasingly difficult to hire Cosmetoligist.  Cosmetologist often take a few years off from employment to have children then return to the workforce with no lapse of skills and knowledge.  Continuing Education Mandate only profits the schools profit margin. VA state schools profit margins should never be an issue in state regulation however lobbist have made it their business to influence state regulations. These lobbist site  the problems stem from the licenses issued with short time frame instruction.  The addition of mandating continued education would devert the resposibility of state libility to the public by diverting the lack of salon  inspection.  In 23 years our salon was inspected one time.   This state burden shift to license holders of responsibility is covering the states lack of enforcement officials and poor budgeting.  This is an easy budget fix but it under the veil of deception to cosmetologist.   http://www.opensecrets.org/    This website has a wealth of information.

Increase the short term instruction  and manadate instruction manuels to include the same course instruction concerning Anatomy and Sanitation as Cosmetology.  Also, mandate business management psychology to the instruction program.  This ensures these ladies and gentleman obtain the training to open their own salons/spa one day.  The 500 hours of instruction which was cut in the training reduction to accomadate the high school instruction programs deleted the business management psychology section to training. To complete the instruction program in a timely fashion less emphasis was placed on the anatomy and other important issues. Look at the statistics of the years of license renewal. This has harmed the industry of no less than 60 hour work weeks.  Adrenal stress due to the Low Thyroid is a common problem with Cosmetologist lack of employees.  To implement continuing education for license renewal would only be a counter productive solution to increasing proficiency of sanitation in salon.  Most of the sanitation problems of short term licensing instruction programs  generate poor work ethics deleted or not mandated in training.  It is very clear politics is the issue at hand not sanitation.