Some burnt records to save their girl students, others pledged to risk their lives in the fight for girl’s education, for Afghanistan‘s educators, Teachers’ Day 2021 will forever be etched in history as the year they lost their hard-earned struggle to give a better future to the children of the war-ravaged nation which will now be governed by the Taliban.
In the wake of the Taliban gaining control of Afghanistan, educators from the war-torn country feel dejected and dismayed as they witnessed the rights of their students being taken away with each passing day.
“As the founder of the only all-girls boarding school in Afghanistan, I’m burning my students’ records not to erase them, but to protect them and their families. I’m making this statement to mainly reassure the families of our students whose records we burned and our supporters of our safety,” Shabana Basij-Rasikh, founder of the School of Leadership Afghanistan, said in a tweet on August 20.
Shabana Basij-Rasikh…
