School registration for kids

It's the school opening today, both my children are not allocated space in Gauteng. One should be starting grade 8 and one is staring grade 1, I followed the registration process and it failed. The department want us to accept schools that are performing poor and have crime. Their logic is that we don't have a choice. I am a frustrated parent I have no idea why the department continue with this system knowing very well that every year it fails.