The Greater Irbid Municipality had opened this street about four years ago with the aim of facilitating vehicle traffic in the area, but today it has become a source of distress for students and their families.
A number of students confirmed that the rising dust distracts them during the morning assembly, in addition to causing health damage, respiratory problems, and lung constriction, especially for students suffering from chronic "asthma".
For his part, the Director of Execution and Maintenance at the Greater Irbid Municipality, Engineer Hamza Al-Koufahi, explained that this street had been inspected previously and the municipality had the intention to pave it and include it in the paving plan, but it was later discovered that the street was no longer under the municipality's jurisdiction and was outside its authority.
In contrast, the Director of Education for Irbid Qasaba, Dr. Raed Al-Khasawneh, confirmed that a title deed (Qushan) for the plot of land has not yet been issued to the Ministry of Education, noting that he communicated with the Mayor, who confirmed to him that the paperwork for the plot of land is currently with the "Higher Planning Council" awaiting official approval and a final response, so that the Ministry of Education can begin the procedures for allocating the land and building the secondary school on it.
Between administrative overlap and waiting for regulatory allocation procedures, students of the King Abdullah II School for Excellence continue to suffer every morning from inhaling dust, amidst urgent demands from parents for the necessity of finding emergency and temporary solutions (such as spraying the street with water or paving it temporarily) to protect the health of their children until the official procedures for building the new school are completed.
