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Styled By Students
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We head into a classroom at JATC South in Riverton where students are learning how to be barbers and hairstylists. Superintendent Godfrey sits down for his own hair cut and styled. Is it the popular Pompadour or does the Superintendent walk away with a Reverse Fade?
Then, CTE Director Jason Skidmore is in studio to talk about all the opportunities for students at JATC South and what parents need to know about the programs.
Audio Transcription
Superintendent Godfrey:
Welcome to the Supercast. I'm your host, Superintendent Anthony Godfrey. This is a Jordan School District podcast designed to educate, inform, and hopefully entertain you. If it's anything that's important to parents, students, teachers, or anything related to education, it's something we hope to feature on the Supercast. Today, I'm going for a haircut. Probably nothing special about that, unless you know I'm going to the JATC South, which is the Jordan Academy for Technology and Careers. They have some amazing programs there. And one of them is a Barbering and Hair Design program so it gets kids a head start on a career in cutting hair. They mostly work on mannequin heads, but today the hair that needed a little help was mine. So I headed down there and Senior Jose helped me. And he was just the man for the job.
Hi, I'm Dr. Godfrey. Your Jose.
Jose:
Yeah.
Superintendent Godfrey:
Alright. I guess I could have read that on your shirt. How swag. So you're going to give me a haircut today. So you're finishing your hour so you can get a license to be a barber. Is barber the right term?
Jose:
Yeah.
Jose:
Okay. Barber, do you want to hear my eighth grade geometry teacher's haircut joke thatI still remember from eighth grade?
Jose:
Okay.
Superintendent Godfrey:
Ask me if I want a haircut.
Jose:
Do you want a haircut?
Superintendent Godfrey:
No, I'd like them all cut.
Jose:
Okay.
Superintendent Godfrey:
Yeah. It's not that it's not that funny. So, I do really need just a trim. I don't want it too short.
Instructor:
I'm Dacia Peterson. I'm the Hair Design and Barbering Instructor. We are overcome just a little bit for your team around the side. We were just talking about his plan of how he's trimming. He will taper a little bit, clipper over comb and then use his shears to finish the haircut.
Superintendent Godfrey:
What are some of the crazier names for haircuts that you teach? What's the most exotic sounding or exciting sounding.
Instructor:
The Pompadour has been really popular recently.
Superintendent Godfrey:
What else?
Instructor:
Some of the High Fades or a Ball Fade or a Skin Fade.
Superintendent Godfrey:
The Fade is popular. And I feel like my hair is fading on its own and that's not very popular with me. So when you say Fade, I hear something different.
Yeah. That is true.
Superintendent Godfrey:
Will you cut hair while you're going to school?
Jose:
Yeah. After this summer, in the fall, I'm going to go to SLCC for two years. And then go to the U to get my bachelor's degree.
Superintendent Godfrey:
Right.
Jose:
Because one day I just want to have my own barbershop.
Superintendent Godfrey:
Right.
Jose:
I have my own business pretty much.
Superintendent Godfrey:
So do you want to get a degree in business so that you can run your own barbershop?
Jose:
Yes, that's great. Now I'm going to do the taper in the back of your head with clipper over comb.
Superintendent Godfrey:
Thanks Jose. Great job. That may be the best haircut I've ever had.
Jose:
I enjoyed doing it.
Instructor:
So that's a great way to get started into a career, to work