NCRI – A group of teachers coming from various cities in Iran protested on Sunday in front of the Iranian regime’s Majlis (Parliament) in reaction to the layoff of 24,000 of their colleagues, according to the state-run website Tabnak.
The protestors, whoa re substitute teachers, traveled to Tehran from Gilan, Mazandaran, Esfahan, Eastern Azerbaijan, Semnan and Bushehr provinces.
The Sunday protest gathering was one of several in recent months by the expelled teachers.
It has been reported that the expulsion of more than 24,000 substitute teachers has taken place as part of an attempt by the mullahs’ Ministry of Education to balance its budget.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s Minister of Education, Hamid-Reza Haji Babai, had recently claimed that the teachers “had entered the ministry illegally.”
However, most of the teachers have years of teaching experience and have undergraduate or graduate degrees.