{"id":335899,"date":"2025-08-22T21:22:16","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T20:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=335899"},"modified":"2025-08-22T21:24:02","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T20:24:02","slug":"irans-regime-turns-schools-into-arenas-of-discrimination-and-social-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/society\/irans-regime-turns-schools-into-arenas-of-discrimination-and-social-control\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran\u2019s Regime Turns Schools into Arenas of Discrimination and Social Control"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_335900\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-335900\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-335900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Iranian-students-face-systemic-exclusion-as-the-regime-transforms-public-education-into-a-tool-of-class-based-repression-and-ideological-control.jpg\" alt=\"Iranian students face systemic exclusion as the regime transforms public education into a tool of class-based repression and ideological control\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Iranian-students-face-systemic-exclusion-as-the-regime-transforms-public-education-into-a-tool-of-class-based-repression-and-ideological-control.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Iranian-students-face-systemic-exclusion-as-the-regime-transforms-public-education-into-a-tool-of-class-based-repression-and-ideological-control-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Iranian-students-face-systemic-exclusion-as-the-regime-transforms-public-education-into-a-tool-of-class-based-repression-and-ideological-control-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Iranian-students-face-systemic-exclusion-as-the-regime-transforms-public-education-into-a-tool-of-class-based-repression-and-ideological-control-746x420.jpg 746w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Iranian-students-face-systemic-exclusion-as-the-regime-transforms-public-education-into-a-tool-of-class-based-repression-and-ideological-control-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Iranian-students-face-systemic-exclusion-as-the-regime-transforms-public-education-into-a-tool-of-class-based-repression-and-ideological-control-696x392.jpg 696w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-335900\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Iranian students face systemic exclusion as the regime transforms public education into a tool of class-based repression and ideological control<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><em>Three-minute read<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A shocking report published by the state-run <a href=\"https:\/\/farhikhtegandaily.com\/page\/271489\/\">Farhikhtegan<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/farhikhtegandaily.com\/page\/271489\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">daily<\/a> on August 19, 2025, exposed the devastating condition of Iran\u2019s public schools: <em>\u201cStudents with an average grade below 16 will not have a place in schools this year.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This is not an isolated decision by a rogue school principal. It reflects a much deeper state policy in which education is no longer treated as a universal right but as a privilege reserved for the elite.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Across the country\u2014from Tehran to Hormozgan, from large cities to impoverished regions\u2014the same stories emerge. Children are being pushed out of classrooms either because their grades fall below arbitrary thresholds or because their families cannot afford hidden costs and extra \u201cfees\u201d demanded by administrators. Families that should be focused on their children\u2019s future are instead forced into humiliating negotiations behind school doors, facing illegal excuses and extortion for additional payments.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Crisis of Education and School Dropouts in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Iran?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Iran<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YfyMtonTMj\">https:\/\/t.co\/YfyMtonTMj<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NCRI-FAC (@iran_policy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/iran_policy\/status\/1930497650182226160?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 5, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\">State Policy and Educational Inequality<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">School officials justify these exclusions by pointing to limited capacity and high demand. As one education expert, Hossein Sistani, explained: \u201cIf a school has capacity for 70 students but 100 apply, the principal will prefer to accept the 70 best.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Yet these rationalizations only mask the regime\u2019s deliberate agenda: forcing families toward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/society\/stats-show-regime-destroyed-irans-education-and-future\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">costly private schools<\/a> and turning education into a commodity. Even Sistani admitted: \u201cThe country\u2019s policies have shifted toward strengthening private schools.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This confession makes clear that the silent expulsion of weaker and poorer students is not an accident but the logical outcome of a systematic policy designed to protect class interests and political control. By channeling resources into private institutions, the regime has effectively privatized education, marginalizing the poor and transforming schools into instruments of inequality.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Such policies are not only anti-student, depriving the vulnerable of their most basic support, but also anti-Iranian, trampling on the universal right to equal education.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Iran?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Iran<\/a> News in Brief<br \/>\nWith the start of the new school year, the Minister of Education of the Raisi cabinet announced a comprehensive purification plan in schools and the replacement of 20,000 school principals. The regime\u2019s so-called \u201cpurification\u201d of its <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/education?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#education<\/a> system is\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2fgxrUvjoJ\">pic.twitter.com\/2fgxrUvjoJ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NCRI-FAC (@iran_policy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/iran_policy\/status\/1706021703107727364?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 24, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\">Social Consequences: Dropouts and Class Divides<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This discriminatory selection process produces devastating consequences. Students expelled or rejected are directly exposed to dropping out, loss of motivation, and greater vulnerability to social harm.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Meanwhile, wealthier families can place their children in <a href=\"https:\/\/irannewsupdate.com\/news\/society\/iran-luxury-schools-and-schools-in-slums\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">expensive private schools<\/a>, while the poor are condemned to exclusion. Education\u2014meant to be the great equalizer\u2014becomes instead a mechanism of division, reproducing class inequality and perpetuating injustice.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The <em>Farhikhtegan<\/em> report reveals that the exclusion of students is not merely a managerial failure but part of a deliberate policy aligned with the regime\u2019s ideological and class interests. When the fundamental right to equal education is trampled, the message is clear: this regime does not seek to nurture informed citizens but to engineer society through discrimination, control, and elimination.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ChildLabour?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ChildLabour<\/a> in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Iran?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Iran<\/a> on the Rise<br \/>\n\u2022 Seven million Iranian children are forced into work before they are legally able to<br \/>\n\u2022 30% of these children don\u2019t go 2 school<br \/>\n\u2022 31% are aged between six and 11<br \/>\n\u2022 9% are under six years old<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XvwTJnGfBN\">https:\/\/t.co\/XvwTJnGfBN<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/iranprotests?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#iranprotests<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/FreeIran2018?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#FreeIran2018<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/KxtHUh82mu\">pic.twitter.com\/KxtHUh82mu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NCRI-FAC (@iran_policy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/iran_policy\/status\/1006667800147054592?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 12, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Every child left outside the school gates becomes a living indictment of this anti-people and anti-Iranian regime. These are not isolated incidents but mounting evidence of a systemic assault on the nation\u2019s future. By denying education, the regime destroys <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/bb3f456c-2fa5-438a-a758-4c152012d134\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Iran\u2019s human capital<\/a> and undermines its youth\u2014the very force that has historically been at the forefront of resistance.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This structural discrimination is not only unjust but dangerous for the regime itself. Every excluded student has the potential to become a rebel, fueling a new generation of resistance. History shows that students played a decisive role in the 1979 anti-monarchic revolution. The heroic scenes of student uprisings can once again return to Iran\u2019s streets.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The reality is stark: a regime that denies even the basic right of children to education cannot claim to provide dignity or justice to the people of Iran. Its deliberate destruction of the nation\u2019s future will only hasten its downfall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three-minute read A shocking report published by the state-run Farhikhtegan daily on August 19, 2025, exposed the devastating condition of Iran&rsquo;s public schools: &ldquo;Students with an average grade below 16 [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":335900,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[5415],"class_list":{"0":"post-335899","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-society","8":"tag-iran-society"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Iran\u2019s Regime Turns Schools into Arenas of Discrimination and Social Control - NCRI<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Three-minute read A shocking report published by the state-run Farhikhtegan daily on August 19, 2025, exposed the devastating condition of Iran\u2019s public The Iranian regime is excluding students with low grades or financial hardship from public schools, turning education into a privilege for the elite. 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