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POA Registration
The Education Department reminds parents to register with the schools which offered their children a discretionary Primary 1 place tomorrow (Monday) and on Tuesday during school hours.
About 40,000 out of 66,700 applicants have succeeded in obtaining a discretionary Primary 1 place at government and aided primary schools for the 1995/96 school year.
A spokesman for the Education Department advised parents to note carefully the registration procedures and requirements of individual schools, such as a parent's copy of the Application Form for Admission to Primary One and the number of photos to be brought along to the school.
Parents should notify the schools or through the Primary One Admission Unit of the Education Department on tel 572 4383 for alternative arrangements if they have difficulties in registering their children with the school during the specified period.
"If parents fail to do so, they will be deemed to have given up the discretionary place offered by the school," the spokesman said.
Children who have not secured a discretionary place at this stage can take part in the central alloation. Parents of these children will receive a letter in late February or early March 1995 from the department requesting them to go to a specified distribution and collection centre for choice of schools.
The Education Department will then allocate a Primary 1 place to their children within their home district in accordance with the parents' choices as far as possible.
end/Sunday, December 4, 1994