When I decided at the age of 14 that I wanted to leave home to go to the NC School of Science and Mathematics, it was dad who packed up the car and made sure that I got there.

FORBES: Thanks, Dad.

From 1996 to 2001, under the Sunni fundamentalist government of the Taliban, women were not allowed to leave their homes without being escorted by a male relative, and girls were not allowed to go to school.

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Mr Reed said the lack of a secondary school in the BS9 area is a huge concern for parents who want their children to go to a community senior school without having to leave the city.

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