Parents say private schools' admission tests aim to exclude

Last month, Pretoria West businesswoman Innocentia Mashele, 36, was left bitterly disappointed after Crawford College Pretoria said that her 12-year-old daughter, Ntshuxeko,"did not do well" in the entrance test.

Responding to Mashele's complaint, Crawford Schools managing director Morag Rees said the tests were used to determine whether a child was ready for a particular grade. Guy Pearson, principal of Bishops Diocesan College in Cape Town, said its entrance exams were not used for"exclusionary" and"elitist" purposes but as one of many tools to select boys from a long list of applicants.Mike Russell, principal of Bridge House in Cape Town, where the school fee for matrics this year is R113,950, said the school has never administered entrance tests.

Describing the admission tests as"elitist", Rob le Roux, principal of Westerford High in Cape Town, a public school, said these schools concentrate on selecting only top academic achievers"so that their matric results look great".

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