Tigris Secondary School for Girls

The Tigris Secondary School for Girls is a convent-style girls' school in the Alawaya district of Baghdad, Iraq. It has some 900 students aged 13-17.

After the 2003 invasion of Iraq former headmistress Sister Clara, who had been removed by the Iraqi Ministry of Education in 1999, due to her liability in private tutoring (al-tadrees al-khusosi) which was forbidden in the educational system of Iraq before the [2003 invasion, was able to return to her post.

External links

BBC news in depth "A tale of two Iraqi schools"

Schools in Baghdad

Operating	Amil High School for Girls Al Mutamayizeen Secondary Baghdad College Baghdad High School for Girls (former American School for Girls) The Gifted Students' School-Iraq Markaziyah High School Tigris Secondary School for Girls

Closed	Shamash School École française de Bagdad Baghdad Japanese School (バグダッド日本人学校)

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