{"id":247892,"date":"2021-09-27T12:13:46","date_gmt":"2021-09-27T17:13:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=247892"},"modified":"2023-02-01T04:41:41","modified_gmt":"2023-02-01T03:41:41","slug":"irans-new-academic-year-a-portrayal-of-amplifying-social-crises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/economy\/irans-new-academic-year-a-portrayal-of-amplifying-social-crises\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran\u2019s New Academic Year: A Portrayal of Amplifying Social Crises"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Iran\u2019s school year began on September 23. Like any other national occasion, the 2021 academic year in Iran showed the depth of social crises in Iran under the mullahs\u2019 regime.
\nThe academic year began with hundreds of protests across Iran by teachers and academics due to their poor living conditions. In Tehran and many other cities across Iran, teachers<\/a> held protests in front of the education ministry and government offices. These protests happened after another round of nationwide protests on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Iranian teachers are protesting the regime\u2019s destructive policies, its failure to rank teachers based on their years of experience and education, refusing to adjust their meager wages with the rising inflation rate, and its refusal to pay pension for retired teachers or salaries teachers on time.<\/p>\n

Teachers were chanting during their recent demonstrations:<\/p>\n

\u2022 \u201cOfficials are giving false promises.\u201d
\n\u2022 \u201cTeachers will die but won\u2019t accept disgrace.\u201d
\n\u2022 \u201cRetired teachers reflect the situation of employed ones.\u201d
\n\u2022 \u201cEducation workers are awake and fed up with lies.\u201d
\n\u2022 \u201cImprisoned teachers must be freed.\u201d<\/p>\n

In a statement marking the beginning of the new academic year, the Iranian Teachers Coordination Council stated the deplorable situations of teachers and underlined their demands.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe government and Parliament are obliged to approve this initiative. If this initiative is approved and implemented, the legal basis for teachers\u2019 wage will be at least 80 percent of that of faculty members, because teachers and members of faculty boards should be receiving equal salaries,\u201d the statement read. The regime indeed has its hands in teachers\u2019 pockets by refusing to maintain their salaries at a low level. The poverty line<\/a> in Iran is 120 million rials (about $437 per month). Yet many teachers receive 35 million rials, which means they are paid about 1,300 euros a year.<\/p>\n

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