Parents of 5000 grades 1 & 8 yet to accept placement offers
The Gauteng Department of Education says the parents of 5 485 grade 1 and grade 8 pupils have not accepted school placement for 2023.
The department briefed the media on Sunday ahead of this week's placement deadline.
Education MEC Matome Chiloane said parents who fail to accept placement offers are causing a bottleneck in the system.
“One of the things that are clogging the system is that we got 5 485 applicants who have received offers but their parents have not accepted them, and this delays the process.
“You find that a learner has been offered space in two or three different schools and until they can accept that offer, the system will cover those spaces as filled.
“We need parents to assist us by accepting offers in one of the places so they can free up the system and we can continue placing other learners, this has been one of the problems we are facing.”
Matome says a total of 12% of pupils still need to be placed.
“We had received 332477 unique applications for both grade 8 and 1 of those 157 697 were grade 1, and 174 780 were for grade 8. we have managed to please 87,7% of those learners so far.
“Currently we are sitting with 35 897 (12.24%) for both grade 1 and 8 pupils awaiting to be placed which is 9 897 for grade 1 and 26 000 for grade 8, we are still in the process to place them.
“Parents should not be worried that they have not been placed as the time towards the end of placement period is coming closer.”
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