School's out in Iran: No phone, no internet, no classes

Iran's education system, crippled by war and a nationwide internet blackout, forces students into a stark digital divide with lessons broadcast only by TV and a restricted intranet. | Contesto: cronaca

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Schools across Iran are shuttered indefinitely due to the ongoing conflict, with authorities shifting all formal education to state television broadcasts and a heavily restricted national intranet. The closure, a direct consequence of wartime conditions, has abruptly halted in-person learning for millions of students. The official pivot to remote instruction, however, has laid bare a profound and immediate crisis: a vast digital divide that is excluding an untold number of children from their education entirely. Compounding the problem, Iran remains effectively severed from the global internet, leaving families isolated and limiting educational resources to only what the state provides through its controlled channels. The government's chosen mediums for continuity—TV and the national intranet—present significant, systemic barriers. While television reaches a broad audience, it is inherently a one-way, passive form of instruction, eliminating teacher-student interaction, real-time questioning, and personalized feedback. The national intranet, a tightly censored and domestically hosted network, requires specific devices to access. This policy immediately creates a stark class-based fault line in access to education. Students from families who cannot afford a laptop, tablet, or smartphone are functionally locked out of this digital classroom, turning a national security measure into an engine of educational inequality. This technological exclusion exacerbates existing social tensions and raises urgent questions about a lost generation. Educators and child welfare advocates, speaking from within the country under conditions of anonymity, warn that the prolonged lack of structured schooling and peer interaction could have severe developmental consequences. The situation is particularly acute for adolescents preparing for university entrance exams, who now lack guided study and competitive benchmarking. The crisis is not merely one of academic delay but of social fragmentation, as the state's infrastructure for mass education and socialization grinds to a halt, replaced by an inadequate and exclusionary digital alternative. The context of a near-total internet...

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