After the teachers' strike ends, the King of Jordan breaks his silence

Jordan's King Abdullah II expressed his delight at seeing students in their schools after the end of a month-long teachers' strike, and believed that what happened "should not be repeated," as he put it.

"I am delighted to see the students in their schools are great and I congratulate the teachers on their World Day," he said in a tweet on Sunday.

Abizaid and King "I followed the details of the strike, some of which was painful absurdity and agendas away from the interest of the student, teacher and education, it was necessary to end the intractability in the service of the educational process." "The biggest price was to put students' interests in disability, and this should not be repeated," he said.

Jordan's students returned to their schools today after teachers announced that they would end their strike at dawn after an agreement between their union and the Jordanian government.

Under the agreement, which ended the longest strike in the history of the Kingdom of Jordan, teachers received financial allowances ranging from 35% to 75% of basic salary, in addition to a package of administrative and technical measures that will improve the lives of teachers and the educational environment.

The Jordanians lived during the day and night on Saturday in an unprecedented scene, waiting for the end of the marathon negotiations, which lasted until the first hour of dawn on Sunday between the government delegation and the Teachers Syndicate Council. The delight was evident on the street and across the platforms after the success of the negotiations.

The announcement was preceded by a letter of apology sent by Jordanian Prime Minister Omar Razzaz to teachers on Saturday morning, which coincided with World Teacher's Day.

The teachers went on strike for four weeks, amidst a fraught atmosphere with rounds of dialogue with the government, which last week announced a series of punitive measures culminated in a decision by the Supreme Administrative Court that the strike should be lifted, before the two sides returned to dialogue after the union confirmed that it would return to strike again.