More than 3.2 million school-aged children in Yemen are out of school, with 1.5 million displaced children at risk of permanent dropout, as a decade of conflict between Iran-backed Houthi forces and the Saudi-backed government has hollowed out the country's education system. Over 2,400 schools have been destroyed, damaged, or repurposed, while teachers across Houthi-controlled northern Yemen have gone unpaid for years, driving hundreds from the profession and gutting classroom quality. Experts warn that the crisis extends beyond the classroom: families forced to send children to work risk entrenching poverty and stunting Yemen's long-term social and economic recovery, with academics describing the deprivation of education as a violation of children's human rights with generational consequences.