Ayman Fadilat-Amman
From the early morning hours, Lina Shuaibat, a high school student, was ready to go to school. The school year had just begun, after teachers announced that they had ended their month-long strike after an agreement between their union and the Jordanian government.
A state of fear and anxiety was experienced by Lina and her family during the strike, which is considered the longest in the history of the Kingdom of Jordan, between the concern for her lessons, and fear of declining educational attainment in the high school year, but she told Al Jazeera Net that she is confident in her teachers to make up for the missed lessons.
If Lina applied to about one and a half million Jordanian students who returned to their schools this morning, after the teachers' union and the Jordanian government reached an agreement at dawn today, under which teachers received financial allowances ranging from 35% to 75% of the basic salary, in addition to a package of administrative and technical procedures Improve the lives of teachers and the learning environment.
| An atmosphere of joy and joy prevailed on the first day of school return after a month of teachers' strike (Al Jazeera) |
Decisive hours
The Jordanians lived during the day and night on Saturday, in an unprecedented scene, in anticipation of the end of the marathon negotiations, which lasted until the first hour of Saturday, and ended with the announcement of the government delegation and the Teachers Syndicate Council to reach an agreement received with great joy was clear in the street on Sunday morning. Communication platforms.
The Battle of Dignity began on 21 March and passed on 5 October and will proceed to the date on which we restore our prestige and will to our great Jordan. |
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.
| Teachers received their students hugging after a month-long absence (Al Jazeera) |
The joy of parents
The satisfaction of the return of life to schools reflected on the parents of students, including those fifty Fayez Jabarat, who told Al Jazeera Net after the delivery of his daughter to the door of her school this morning, "students need to make up for the lessons they may affect their results in the guideline."
"We stood with the teacher for the duration of the strike because he deserved more than he got, and now it is the role of the teacher to stand with our children in the compensation of the last period."
Teachers at Baqa'a Secondary School north of Amman were keen to receive their students with smiles, kisses and sweets, and assured their students that they would work to compensate them for the lost lessons in accordance with the plan to be issued by the Ministry of Education.
| Students listen to the morning radio after the return of life to schools after a month of teachers strike (Al-Jazeera) |
Zgharid and anthem Mawtani
Balzgarid mentor receives students # Victory_teacher #block_vision pic.twitter.com/AbQ0k0RmY9 - HamzahAlQudah🇯🇴🇦🇪 (@ 7amzaQudah) October 6, 2019 |
While activists exchanged video clips of the atmosphere of joy between teachers and students with the return of life to schools, including the reception of a teacher in one of her students Balzgarid, which spread the atmosphere of joy among her students and fellow teachers, and teachers echoed one of the schools of Kfarsom in northern Jordan with their students this morning applaud Mawtani The return of life to schools and the victory of what they considered the will of teachers.
Teachers and students of Kfarsom School in Irbid singing Mawtani Mawtani #With_Teacher #Anti_Teacher #BlockReview pic.twitter.com/qE3s5lTu5o - HamzahAlQudah🇯🇴🇦🇪 (@ 7amzaQudah) October6, 2019 |
Maryam al-Ayed, the mother of one of the students, considered that "the victory of teachers is a victory for all the homeland, because the teacher can not do without anyone," she added to the island Net "for a month and we reject the return of students to schools until the teacher gets his rights."
Observers believe that the popular incubator and the state of rally by the Jordanians on the demands of teachers and the provision of necessary and necessary support for them, was a direct reason for the success of the strike.
| The morning school bell is ringing after the students return after a month of strike (Al-Jazeera) |
Means of communication
"The battle of dignity began on March 21 and passed on October 5 and will go back to the date when we restore our prestige and will to bring our great Jordan back," writer Ahmed Hassan al-Zoubi tweeted on his Twitter account. They keep going. "
Neither the winner nor the loser |
The activist Shaker Jarrar tweeted on the marking "Victory_teacher" feeling nice, but the policy is meaningless, the strike is a political battle, not Jim and Billiards, the teachers' struggle with the government was essentially a will of struggle .. The victory of teachers is a victory of popular will against the will of the ruling class and its tools, The smallest screw in this government to the biggest cowardly sycophant media. "
"Morning for this day is different from every day. Morning is breathing high, dignity, Azza, Sabah propagates hope that we are still able to make a difference," said Manal. .
Between satisfaction and joy, activists raised questions about why the government delayed signing the agreement with teachers after four weeks of push and pull, while others considered that the government ultimately prevailed in the national interest and that the victor was the country with all its components.