A number of parents of those children who had been discharged from Fariab technical school in Kerman, southern Iran, gathered on Sunday in front of the local educational office to protest the unprecedented rise in the tuition of their children calling the increase as another means of extortion by the regime’s authorities.
Schools official backed by the government of Rouhani had dismissed 7 students from the school for not being able to pay an amount of 300,000 Rials for tuition to the school.
The official in question threatened the protesting parents that if the money was not paid until certain date, their children would be barred from attending first term examinations.