Does Rittners Provide Some Kind of “Internship” Experience After Taking A Course?
We tend to be suspicious of any floral design program that requires that you take an “internship.” In our opinion, internship implies that there is not enough hands-on design time built into the course itself. If you are paying for a course in floral designing, you are entitled to learn floral designing in the course itself and should receive the necessary flowers, containers, supplies and materials to do so. Unpaid internships are essentially apprenticeship approaches. If you remember the old “Karate Kid” movies, the concept of doing an apprenticeship usually involves doing all of the unpleasant chores (such as maintenance and cleaning) with the hope that a little teaching will get done along the way. In real life, apprenticeship approaches can be discouraging and can take years. They tend to benefit employers with free labor more than the person trying to learn. The whole concept of going to school was to eliminate that kind of exploitation and provide a far more efficient means of l
