Parents seek spots with popular schools despite record-high allocation results

Many Hong Kong parents still sought a place with popular primary schools for their children despite a record-high of 86 per cent of pupils allocated to institutions they favoured.A day after the Education Bureau sent premature SMS notifications about the allocations that listed the correct school choices but the wrong calendar year, some principals and parents said the rare blunder had limited impact on the post-allocation process.Some parents said they even had a little extra time to plan for more schools as a result of the premature notification ahead of the official announcement of the results on Wednesday.