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SHS placement challenges persist as parents, students seek help at GNAT Hall

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Parents and students have continued to throng the GNAT Hall as they seek assistance to resolve challenges with the Computerized School Selection and Placement System (CSSPS).

The concerns range from requests to change schools and courses to appeals for changes in the residential status of students who have been placed in various senior high schools.

At the GNAT Hall, parents and their wards are being directed to join queues before proceeding to designated resolution tables, where officials attend to their concerns.

The steady flow of parents and students has continued as authorities work to address the issues brought before them.

Officials overseeing the resolution process are confident that most of the concerns can be addressed within 48 hours.

According to the authorities, many of the challenges being brought to the centre are not new and have been recurring over the past five years.

One of the major concerns is the placement of students in schools they did not select.

Some parents say their wards have been placed in schools outside the choices they made during the selection process, leaving them seeking changes to placements.

Others are seeking changes to the courses their wards have been placed in, while some are appealing for a change in residential status.

For instance, parents whose wards have been placed in schools far from their homes, sometimes in another region, are seeking boarding or residential arrangements where the current placement does not provide one.

The continued turnout at the GNAT Hall highlights the challenges some families face each year following the release of senior high school placements.

Parents and students are therefore being encouraged to use the designated resolution channels to raise concerns and seek clarification on their placements.