In the latest sign of the collapse of education in Iran, it has been reported that 70 students from a school with 400 students in Tehran have been unable to continue their education—equivalent to 17.5% and more than one-sixth of the students at a single school.
A significant number of these children and adolescents were studying in seventh, eighth, and ninth grades—an age at which dropping out of school can directly push them toward forced labor, entrenched poverty, and social harm.
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Behind these figures are families who, under the pressure of inflation, education costs, and the livelihood crisis, can no longer afford to keep their children in school.
Under a regime that spends billions of dollars of Iran’s resources on repression, warmongering, and proxy forces, teenagers in the capital are being deprived of their most basic right—the right to education—because of poverty.
If 70 students have dropped out of school at just one school, what is the true number of children across Iran who have been deprived of education?
These figures were reported by an education inspector during a visit to a school in Tehran.
