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Iran: 200 Schools Shut Down for Teaching Music and Foreign Languages

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NCRI – The Head of the Organization for Non-State Schools at the Ministry of Education announced that they have identified and closed 200 science and language schools in Tehran Province.

As the state-run irinn.ir reports, Marzieh Gord referred to the English language teaching in some primary schools and stated: “teaching any language except Farsi is totally forbidden in primary schools. The Supreme Council of the Ministry of Education has not issued any official permit for teaching foreign languages in the primary schools.”

She pointed out that the managers of those schools that violated the law have been reprimanded. She said: “Some private primary schools say in the advertisement that 2 or 3 foreign languages are taught at their school. These ads are indeed demagoguery and deceptive.”

The Head of the Organization for Non-State Schools reiterated that teaching any sort of music or playing any type of music instrument is forbidden in the governmental and private schools.

She also referred to closing 200 foreign language schools and said: “According to the law, establishing a private school of foreign languages shall obtain an official permit only from the Ministry of Education for all grades from the pre-school to high school and getting registration certificate from any other authority is absolutely illegal. I ask the Disciplinary Forces Bureau of properties to prosecute the unauthorized language schools.”