Fury over Gauteng school online application glitches
The provincial Department of Education yesterday incurred the wrath of parents in Tshwane after its online school applications for Grade 1s and 8s for 2021 faced major glitches.
Just as in previous years parents were livid at the online registration process, which has come under heavy criticism before, amid calls for it to be scrapped.
Frustrated parents lashed out at the department after experiencing a number of problems in the system, including OTP. This prompted the department to suspend the feature.
“We need to sincerely apologise to parents who experienced glitches. We understand that we have introduced an additional security measure that is OTP, and we have experienced a challenge that parents could not be assisted
“We have realised that the numbers were not coming,” department spokesperson Steve Mabona said.
A displeased parent from Centurion said he was already waiting by the time the system went live at 8am. However, he only finished the application process two hours later, having applied to two schools in the Centurion region.
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