Ardeshir Shoja’ii, deputy director of Khuzistan Province’s Department of Education, said, 78 per cent of elementary students deprived of education are girls.
“There is a total of 14,088 school children in this province who are deprived of education and they are mostly consisted of 7 to 14-year-old girls”, he added.
He admitted, “Most students in deprived areas are marrying in early ages and do not continue their education”. (State-run Asr-e Iran website – March 16, 2016(