nakujua wrote:murchr wrote:You'd think since we are so digitally correct, these selections would be done by some comp. Since the kiddos selected their preferred schools, and the schs have a cut off point eg 400 an easy - "IF - THEN - ELSE-" code can do this and save the gov so much in allowances that are paid to these teachers.
exception - what if all the national schools that a kid selected are filled up by kids with slightly higher marks, does the program pick another national school at random or does it fall back to the county school selected.
the parameters passed can quickly complicate that simplicity.
I may need some education on how many schools a child picks. But from what the CS and PS said....that kids got the schools that they chose/selected. Which has been proved to be wrong. So by default, the kid who misses out on his/her first selection, should land the second selection that they took that is what a "IF ..THEN...ELSE STATEMENT DOES...
PS: I DONT KNOW HOW ITS DONE THESE DAYS, WHEN I DID MINE I SELECTED 3 OR MORE SCHOOLS. in plain english, the statement fed to the program should read "
IF'Child indexnumber' 40123001 >/ 400
THEN ('Alliance High' 2012301)
ELSE {
IF 'Child indexnumber' 40123001 >/ 350
THEN ('Nyeri High' 201235450)
ELSE {
IF 'Child indexnumber' 40123001 >/ 250
THEN ('Ndunduri High' 201256801)
ELSE 'Join Polytechnic
END IF; NB Syntax not observed.
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