October 05, 2018
All the students of a charity school in Iran’s Sistan va Baluchestan Province who took the college entrance exams have been admitted to public universities.
The people of Saravan and its surrounding villages were delighted because all the students from their local Shahid Motahari boarding high school were successful at the nationwide university entrance exam, called the Konkur.
Mahmud Nosrat, the biology teacher, said in an interview with the daily Shahrvand that the graduating class had 30 students, 17 of whom will study pre-medical.
According to the teacher, the school is a boarding one and most of its students come from villages around Saravan.
“Our school had 280 students this year. Thanks to a special program and an educational team that has been working with them for five years, these students received special education since the very first year of school.”
He said the most important factor for the success of these students is the staff members who work at the school.
“The teachers of the school are professional, and, of course, 100 percent of them are natives of the province. Our administrative team at the school is very competent and works 360 days a year. At school, we usually start a new school year the day after the last exam of the students. For example, this year, May 27 was the last day of the school year and on the same day the new school year began. It means the students did not go home at all,” said Nosrat.
The entry fee for the school is about $10. Most of the costs of the school are covered by charities.
The biology teacher said, “Their families have no income, especially because of droughts. We have students who come to school from the very first day to the end of the year and do not go home at all. They have no money to go. For us, Eid ul-Adha and Eid ul-Fitr are very important, and every year, some colleagues raise money so that the students can go home on those two days.”
He said a number of the school’s teachers are graduates of the school. “They return home; their home is here, their fatherland is here.”