Twelfth grade ladies, who had been banned from faculty by the Taliban, had been requested to take a seat for commencement exams.
Afghan schooling authorities have organised commencement exams for highschool ladies throughout a lot of the nation regardless of most of them being barred from attending courses for the reason that Taliban’s return to energy final 12 months.
The schooling ministry didn't present particulars of the exams – or what number of pupils had been sitting them – and refused to permit the media close to colleges the place they had been being held on Wednesday.
A doc, signed by Habibullah Agha, the schooling minister who took workplace in September, mentioned the checks can be held in 31 of Afghanistan’s 34 provinces. The three excluded provinces – Kandahar, Helmand and Nimroz – have completely different timetables for the college 12 months and high-school commencement exams usually happen later.
“I'm in a really dangerous state proper now,” mentioned Sajida, a Twelfth-grade pupil, whereas talking to Al Jazeera concerning the examination on Wednesday. “We haven’t studied a single ebook for it.”
“We're right here to reply 140 questions with out realizing something,” she mentioned.
Most secondary colleges for ladies have been shut throughout the nation for the reason that Taliban returned to energy in August final 12 months, with the hardliners providing a collection of excuses for the closures.
Ladies’s teams and college students have protested, demanding the lifting of the ban on excessive colleges for ladies.
Officers have mentioned there weren't sufficient lecturers or funds, that they might reopen as soon as an Islamic curriculum had been ready, or that a nationwide coverage on modest faculty apparel first needed to be formulated.
“We're obeying the hijab rule and since we obey them [Taliban] they need to additionally fulfil our needs,” Zubaida, additionally a grade-12 pupil, advised Al Jazeera.
“We don’t need a lot. We solely wish to research in our nation as a result of it’s our proper. Half of the inhabitants is ladies. We've a proper and they need to give us our proper to prosper,” mentioned Zubaida.
A Kabul highschool principal mentioned she was knowledgeable that Twelfth-grade ladies had simply someday to take exams in 14 topics, with 10 questions in every topic.
The principal, who spoke on situation of anonymity for concern of reprisals, mentioned most lady college students lacked textbooks.
“Giving an examination is meaningless,” she mentioned.
Women who couldn't attend or those that fail Wednesday’s examination can be allowed to retake the take a look at in mid-March, after the winter trip.
The ministry introduced the reopening of faculties in March final 12 months, however they had been shut hours afterward the order of Supreme Chief Haibatullah Akhunzada.
Ladies have more and more been squeezed out of public life for the reason that Taliban’s return regardless of their promise of a softer model of the tough rule that characterised their first stint in energy that led to 2001.
Ladies have been pushed out of presidency jobs – or are being paid a pittance to remain at house – and are additionally barred from travelling with out a male family member, and should cowl up with a burqa or hijab when out of the house.
Final month they had been additionally prohibited from going to parks, funfairs, gyms and public baths.
The Taliban has thus far allowed younger ladies to attend college, with courses segregated by intercourse.
There are fears, nonetheless, that with out with the ability to cross the college leaving examination, there shall be only a few ladies in a position to apply to school.
College students who cross the leaving examination are eligible to take a seat the “Kankor”, a extremely aggressive take a look at that decides coveted college locations.
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