Schools’ uniforms in Iran

In Iran, girls have to wear a uniform (mostly between the ages of 7 to 18) when they go to school every day. We know that a teenager doesn’t like to wear uniforms when they go to school. The reason for wearing the same uniforms every day is to learn cohesion and discipline. However, sometimes this feels like a loss of freedom. In Iran, girls need to wear a uniform that has a hijab with it. The interesting part is the law for wearing hijab starts at the age of nine years old in Iran. However, schools ask even 7 and 8 years olds to have a hijab too. There are kindergartens that enforced hijab for five or six years old. After primary school, most schools uniform are dark blue. The fact that we had to were hijab was on one hand and on the other hand we were asked to wear a dark color every single day for going to school for at least seven years. If we didn't do what they asked for, we would be in trouble and the school would ask us to bring a parent for the next day. They call it “breaking the law” if one day I wore the hijab and everything else they asked for, but I just didn't wear the same scarf that they required. Having makeup or nail Polish is forbidden in girls’ schools. For boys school, they had to wear dark uniforms too but most of the high schools let them wear what they want except shorts and tops. Additionally, In Iran, there is a law that men cannot wear shorts in public and it’s one of the hijab laws for men. Because of all of this, students were stressed out every day for going to school and now the new generation has the same feelings. I am not against hijab but I don't love hijab in the way Iran represents it. I want freedom for people in Iran so everyone can wear anything they want which is their right. Having mandatory hijab, dark colors, no nail Polish, no makeup, no cell phone in school, etc. gives students stress and anxiety about going to school. These rules are related to Iran's government and need to be changed from the bottom.

Mashouri V