Institute for Iranian Contemporary Historical Studies (Articles) WWW.IICHS.ORG The Iranian girl schools
Nilufar Kasra Prior to the constitutionalism, there was no school for girl students in After the constitutionalism, there were some talks among Majlis deputies regarding the foundation of schools. Some of them including Nazem-ol-Eslam supported the idea of establishing schools for girls. In his reply, Mirza Seyyed Mohammad Sadeq, the principal of Islam school said that since there is no regular police, the single young men would cause trouble to for them. Moreover there were no female teachers, so first of all they should train female teachers. The first girl school was founded by Bibi Khanum Vazirof in 1906. This event was faced by many objections. Following this, Bibi Khanum referred to the ministry of education to complain, but in reply, they said that it was advisable to close the school. After the bombardement of Majlis, Bibi Khanum met Sani-od-dewleh, then the minister of education. This time her request was admitted provided that only girls between 4 to 6 years old were accepted, and the word girl be dropped from the board of the school. Namus school This school was founded by Tuba Azmudeh in Parvaresh school In 1903 Tuba Roshdieh founded the girl Up to this time all these schools were not official, though sometimes they were supported by some Majlis or government members. In 1909 all |