Shafaq News- Damascus

Thousands of students in Kurdish-language schools in Syria’s Aleppo, Al-Shahba, and Afrin areas face uncertainty over their education after schools and institutes using the Kurdish curriculum closed following recent fighting, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said on Saturday.

Despite integration efforts and agreements announced since the beginning of the year, affected students said the problem remained unresolved. They called for the immediate reopening of their schools and the return of teachers to classrooms.

The closures have affected students from primary school through university and left thousands of teachers out of work. The students said enrolling in state-run schools was “not a practical option for many of those affected” because they had studied in Kurdish for years, while government schools teach in Arabic. The language gap could hinder their studies and make it difficult to adapt to the new curriculum.

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