From Educational Deprivation to Forced Stay at Home; The Concern of Female Students Above the Sixth Grade About the Ban on Going to School
From Educational Deprivation to Forced Stay at Home; The Concern of Female Students Above the Sixth Grade About the Ban on Going to School

Afghanistan Women’s News Agency – With the end of the academic year and the end of the annual school exams in Afghanistan, a number of female students in Farah province who have graduated from the sixth grade are worried about their future education, and they are requesting to reopen the school gates to female students […]

Afghanistan Women’s News Agency – With the end of the academic year and the end of the annual school exams in Afghanistan, a number of female students in Farah province who have graduated from the sixth grade are worried about their future education, and they are requesting to reopen the school gates to female students above the sixth grade.

Asma, a female student who graduated from sixth grade in Farah province this year, says:”

“I was passionate about finishing school and going to university. Because I am a girl, I am not allowed to go to school from grade seven onwards. I ask those who closed the schools, to allow us to go to school again.”

Maryam, another student, says: “I cried a lot when our exams were over and I said goodbye to my teachers and classmates. I wish we could go to school again and study. My father is not alive, my mother works in people’s homes every day. I wanted to go to university when I finished school and find a job so that my mother doesn’t work too much, but now I can’t do anything.”

This is despite the fact that after October 2021, when the republican government fell in Afghanistan and the Taliban came to power for the second time, after 33 days of their rule, they decided to close the gates of schools to girls.

At that time, the Taliban announced the reopening of schools for girls below the sixth grade, but girls above the sixth grade were prohibited from going to school until further notice.

But following two years of this announcement, a large number of girls who have graduated from sixth grade are not allowed to go to school in the new academic year.

After 810 days since girls’ schools were closed to girls above 13 years old, some of these students express their concern that they are very puzzled because their fate and educational future remain unknown and they want the gates of girls’ schools to be reopened to girls above the six grade.