The Gauteng Department of Education should swallow its pride and allow schools and school governing bodies to handle applications and registrations of Grade 1 and 8 learners, parents said. pretorianews
Pretoria - The Gauteng Department of Education should swallow its pride and allow schools and school governing bodies to handle applications and registrations of Grade 1 and 8 learners, parents said on Sunday. Parents were speaking outside the provincial education's Tshwane district offices, where they had converged to demand placement for their children. Similar scenes were reported from other district offices across the province.
Most of the parents said they were going to send their children from townships to schools in Centurion, Valhalla, Wierdapark, Lyttelton and Olievenhoutbosch.
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