The Western Cape Education Department (WCED) is dealing with a number of challenges, including thousands of "double parker" pupils who have been accepted into more than one school (WCED). According to the department, these pupils deprive other learners of a school placement until they confirm their choice.
According to Bronagh Hammond, a Western Cape Education Department (WCED) spokesperson, one oversubscribed school could have 80 placed learners who would eventually attend another school.
Parents, please, make a choice as soon as possible. There are thousands and thousands of places that will become available within the next week, because by 17 June, if that parent hasn’t made a choice, then we select the school they chose first.
If this is completed, many more spaces will become available at schools that have previously stated that they are oversubscribed.
Hammond also pointed out that the Department is still in need of more classrooms and teachers, adding that they have received R2.2 billion more than in the previous financial year allowing the department to avail 1 000 extra teaching posts, building new classrooms, replacing schools, and doing maintenance.
