DA Urges Parents to Use Walk-In Centres for School Placements

The DA in Gauteng is urging all parents whose children have still not been placed at a school to use the walk-in centres set up by the provincial Department of Education. The department has extended the online placement deadlines for Grades 1 and 8 to the 30th of this month. The DA’s, Sergio Isa Dos Santos, says while the extension may provide brief relief to parents and guardians, it underscores the chronic issues plaguing the province’s education system: