Do You Agree?

Do you, as citizens of our country - the Philippines - agree with President Nonoy Aquino's K-12 program? Do you think our country is ready for the said changes? Do you think we can go with that educational trend?

On the first place, what is K-12? K-12 is used for describing the sum of the primary and secondary curriculum. It is the curriculum used by most of the countries nationwide. As we know, the Philippines is still in the K-10 curriculum where the primary academics is composed of six levels and the secondary is composed of four levels. This is why President Aquino is planning to change our K-10 curriculum to a K-12 curriculum. 

Having this kind of curriculum have advantages...


With this curriculum, the students will have longer years to study; thus, they can have more time to learn, they can have more knowledge, and they can have higher potentials. With this, our country can also go with the world's trend on having this kind of curriculum. 

K-12 offers outstanding, highly effective curriculum that enables mastery of core concepts and skills for all kinds of minds. It enables students to achieve mastery through a combination of individualized learning approaches, passionate teacher engagement, and adherence to the best educational research about how young minds really work, and rich, engaging content.

Yes, K-12 has advantages but with it are certain disadvantages, problems, and intrigues. We are aware that the plan would be implemented for the next school year and we are not yet ready for the said changes. We cannot right away change our educational level because we had started with the K-10 curriculum; besides, not all agree with this academical change. 

One year is not enough for us to decide whether or not these plan would be implemented. It would never be easy for us to go with the changes because this kind of academics has many improvements and these improvements change per year. Thus, if these plan would pursue then there would be lots and lots of changes per year.

It would also be unfair for the students who had already started with the K-10 curriculum if they had to go with the new curriculum. It would be a disadvantage for the families that have financial problems; it would just be an extra cost for them. Some students might also loose their interest because of the added years before graduating.

I think that if they really want K-12 to be applied, then it must start after six years. It must be applied for the incoming students for it to be fair for the students that had already started with the K-10 curriculum. If in case by the sixth year, President Aquino is no longer our president then he could ask for the implementation of the K-12 from the new president. In this way, we can have a time to be ready for the changes. Also, within that six years, we can think of many ways on how to improve the curriculum and make it better.   

Applying K-12 curriculum really has lots of conflicts. I just hope, these conflicts can be solved as early as possible so that we would be able to agree on the implementation of K-12.

Do You Agree? by Lady Shaira 'Shai' Abuan is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.
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