There is a new heartbreaking video showing the moment teachers at a beauty school stopped class to tell the students
Capri Institute is shutting down.
Capri
Institute closed its campuses around the state without warning earlier this
month and told students it was for a 30-day leave.
Joseph
Anodide, a student who graduated in October, is now speaking out about what he
witnessed and what he calls red flags over the summer.
“Halfway through the year, our distributor stopped sending color
developer, perm solution, perm neutralizer, which is all stuff we need to do
daily work on clients,” says Anodide.
He took
video of black mold inside the school, cockroaches were seen crawling on the
floor, a burned electrical socket taped over, and outside garbage bags piled up
in dumpsters for three months without any pickup.
“Crows everywhere. Who knows what other rodents were in the
dumpsters?” says Anodide.
There were
239 students enrolled at the four campuses, some who paid tens of thousands of dollars for
classes. A state organization is stepping in to help these students. Anodide says he came forward
to fight for those left behind.
“When you spend 1,200 hours
with someone, you get to know them and become a tight-knit family,” says
Anodide. “I may have been graduated and fine with my license. Some people don’t,
and they paid all this money in order to get their licenses. To take
their money and run ... it’s unethical and immoral in my opinion.”
The New
Jersey Salon and Spa Alliance is trying to place these students in
salons as associates where help is needed to accrue hours toward their license.
Multiple
calls to the owners have been made with no response. Their Paramus campus is
now listed for lease on a realtor website.
Dozens of
complaints have been filed to the office of the attorney general,
and students are in the process of filing a class-action lawsuit against
Capri.
Multiple
calls to the owners have been made with no response.