TYLER, Texas — Sixteen-year-old RISE Academy senior Antonio Medina started cutting hair at age 13. Now he owns his own business: 903 Cutz and will graduate this Thursday from Tyler ISD’s RISE Academy.
Medina wanted to graduate early so he juggled barber school and high school. He went to barber school at 14 and took his barber exam at 15.
“It was just hard because I had to be able to manage school and try to graduate early too at the same time while still going to barber school and still putting my 1,000 hours in,” Medina said. “It was stressful. So from August to November, I was just stressed, stress and stress back to back.”
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