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The Taliban has taken a terrible toll on the education of girls -- and boys as well

Saturday marks the 5th anniversary of the current Taliban rule in Afghanistan. They've had a devastating impact on girls' education. A lesser told story is their impact on the education of boys.

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But Mubariz, who later taught himself English, became an English instructor and now hosts a podcast and helps run a nongovernmental organization, said the school he once attended no longer felt like a place of learning. "I felt I was wasting my time at school rather than learning," he said. Before the Taliban returned to power five years agoon August 15, 2021 — Mubariz remembered his public school as friendly and relatively open. Students studied English, science, mathematics, biology and literature alongside religious subjects. The school was not perfect, he said, but it felt safe and focused on learning. "Many people believe that only girls' education is affected," Mubariz said. "But boys are also facing a serious education crisis." The Taliban's restrictions on girls and women have been sweeping and severe, barring girls from secondary schools and women from universities and robbing millions of any formal path to education. But interviews with boys and young men show another, less visible part of Afghanistan's education crisis: Boys are still allowed to attend school, but many say the education being offered inside the classroom has changed so sharply that it no longer prepares them for the future.

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