The Education Minister has clarified that there will be no restrictions on parents to send their children to schools outside the proposed zone if they can afford it.
Filipe Bole comments comes after some parents raised concern with the new zoning system which starts from next year, asking whether they will still be allowed to send their children to schools outside their defined zone.
Filipe Bole said if space is available in any school then students from outside the zones can be accommodated.
He said the schools will make their own decisions.
The School zoning will begin in Class 1 in all urban primary schools, and Form 3 in urban secondary schools from next year.
It is expected that by the end of Term 2 of the 2010 school year, the capacities of primary and secondary schools in the school home zone will be identified.
Schools will have defined school zone boundaries determined by the residence of a student and such zones will be called the "school home zone".
For schools in the urban areas, such zones would cover an area of two kilometers away from the school.
