Teachers have said that the 5% pay raise on salary they were granted starting January 2010 is their right and not an aid given by the government as they said that the successive governments used to drop.

These teachers told Ammannet “this step is good, although there is nothing new with this”.

Some looked upon Prime Minister Samir Rifaei's tour with student Saleh Dweikat, who was beaten by teachers earlier this year, as a message for them, without getting the intended lesson of it.