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students compete with others in the same province; and third admission, where students
who did not get accepted during first and second admission resubmit their applications.
Lasro Marbun, head of the Jakarta Education Agency, said that anyone who did not
re-register in the public admission phase and was unable to register during local admission
or third admission, could register their children at private schools. “They can then transfer
them to a public school in the second semester,” he said on Thursday as quoted by
kompas.com.
However, Rida Afrida, who wanted to register her son at state junior high school SMP
194, did not agree with that idea. According to her, a lot of people have chosen public
schools over private schools for financial reasons.
“I cannot pay for a private school, if he thinks that is a good alternative for us, he
should just give us the money to pay for those schools,” she said.
Meanwhile, acting Jakarta governor Basuki “Ahok” Tjahaja Purnama said that the
parents should be patient and not panic.
“We had no problems last year. The process might be a little complicated but there’s
no reason to panic,” Ahok told reporters at City Hall. (idb/dwa) (Adopted from:
http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2014/07/05/parents-upsetdisappointed-with-online-
school-registration.html)

B. Vocabulary Builder Write down the synonym of the following words:

throng (v) : _________________________
dissatisfaction (n) : _________________________
enrollment (n) : _________________________
turn down (v) : _________________________
vie (v) : _________________________
submit (v) : _________________________

Listen to your teacher reading these words. Repeat after him/her.

upset :/əpˈ sɛt/
throng: /θrɔŋ/
dissatisfaction: /ˌ dɪsætɪ ˈ sfækʃən/
disappointment: /ˌ dɪsə ˈ pɔɪntmənt/
enrollment: /ɛnˈ roʊlmənt/
registration: /ˌ rɛʤɪˈ streɪʃən/
vocational: /voʊ ˈ keɪʃənəl/
turn down: /tɜrn daʊn/
reject: /ˈ riʤɛkt/ vie: /vaɪ/
submit: /səbˈ mɪt/

C. QUESTIONING

When reading the text, what questions come up in your mind? If you don’t have any
questions to ask, ask questions the answers of which are the ones underlined in the text.
Write the questions in the space below, then work in pairs and ask your friends the questions
you've written.

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