Parents enrolling their children in bridging courses should be aware that they may not give them any advantage in Form One applications, a prominent Catholic school has warned.
The comments follow a parent's complaint that he felt cheated over a bridging course that failed to secure a secondary section place for his daughter at St Paul's Convent School.
Head of enrolment at the school Irene Wu said the courses had 'nothing to do with admissions'.
Dennis Licuanan said his daughter was one of three top Primary Six students at Delia Memorial Primary School in Mei Foo who were invited last December to take after-school lessons at the Causeway Bay school.
The family paid fees of $1,000 for the month-long course, which they believed would count towards their application to the school.
But at the end of the interview process they were told their 'chances were very, very slim, purely because of geography,' Mr Licuanan said. Niether his daughter nor her classmates were accepted. 'I felt I was cheated,' he said.
