What is K-12?
It is the educational system employed by most countries
around the world (universal system) wherein compared to the system we had
before there will be TWO more additional levels in high school starting from kindergarten
to grade 12, before pursuing a course in college. The supposedly first-year high school shall now be called
grade 7 and second year as it was called
in the previous system we implemented would be grade 8 till the fourth year
high school now be known as grade 10 so on and so forth.
In K-12, there will
be additional lessons which are mostly focused on skills and ability (some say
TESDA courses’ basic) to prepare the upcoming college freshmen to whatever
career may be pursued. K-12 helps students become more competitive and not be
left-out being compared to graduates of the said system from other countries.
Lessons are taught in the vernacular and English medium of
instruction belongs to the subject alone for the reason that English can be
learned while the lessons strictly taught
in English can be more tedious to the students who are Filipino natives who are
not so fluent in the language. Theories being studied will then be more
understandable, sure what they learn in Science or Math and other subjects will
be retained in their memory bank and as soon as they learn the English
language, hear them talk about it J
K-12 implementation enables us to be abreast with other
countries in the world, because we are among the countable few (only four, as I remember I heard from news) who did not employ K-12
educational system in the world.
Is the system really a problem?
Stopping K-12 system these days will cost our country
wasting the money spent in acquiring materials and aides already acquired to
realize the system. I was just asking
that why only now that the campaigns against the implementation of it are late?
Only this time that AGAINSTs had become sensational and noted even in various media forms. I respect the Teachers
Dignity Alliance’s group’s choice and beliefs that the country is not ready yet
for the change in the educational system because of the lack of classrooms,
teachers? I am not so convinced that we lack professionals to assume the needed
posts…in fact we have plenty of graduates who became underemployed – working in
factories or households as house-helper abroad, I even remember seeing a “teacher” working as a nanny in
Hongkong being interviewed.
Additional Two Years Useful or Not?
Contrary to it, the added two years before one can be called
even a elementary, highschool or college
graduate can be so onerous to parents and students themselves..is this
really what we need? Our graduates in the past years are competitive even in
the international scene (one proof is the winner of the Apprenctice TV show) a Filipino besting an American, Singaporean,
German and even French candidates assuming a rank in Air Asia chosen by its proprietor - Tony Fernandez . Mr. Fernandez has set a very rigid selection
process and interviewed each candidate one by one and our fellowman still
emerged as the TOP choice. Those grads who
are now working in every famous business locations in the world, New York etc. Our home-grown
grads have not failed to put our flags in every field of endeavor they have chosen despite the fact that they
have not studied under the k-12 system. The nurses and the caregivers are among
the first choice of the employers.
Empathizing with the parents and the students, I think the
ratio of undergrads will balloon. But
being a k-12 graduate is opening an opportunity to other job positions not just being a helper, salesperson, janitorial posts and
the like when you have not yet step-up to college and hunt for a job. Equipped
with basic knowledge on other skills
apart from the theories learned from
kindergarten till grade 10, the training enclosed in grades 11 and 12 can be
useful especially to the underprivileged
in a way that it can be a good reason to easily get employed and be able to
pursue college studies part-time.
The concern of our other countrymen is that, are we just
encouraging the students just to finish grade12 and not to go to college
anymore? Yes, I think it is partly true
that anyone who starts earning cash, the tendency is that continuing to college
became a low priority or sometimes forgotten.
Why YES to K-12?
My say in this issue is that, let it be. We will no longer
have any feeling of inferiority towards anyone graduating from a school system
way beyond the modern means. And it is
the parents’ motivation and positive acceptance of the system that will
help every student to open their doors to change. The educational
structure we had before, like other things we see around became OBSOLETE and we
Filipinos all opt for “What’s new?”, I
remember an adage saying “The one who
graduates today and stop s learning tomorrow will never be educated the day
after…”, I forgot the author. Taking it as
an idiomatic expression, only means that if one has to be content of what he
had in the past, and never open doors to
the better version of it, will become not so clever at all in the days to come.
The newer version of anything be it on technology or methodology has always
been the IMPROVED one, more features and bettered , enhanced for greater performance.
I salute the groups of teachers who flagrantly utter their
disapproval of the new structure and still dignified
enough to go on with their duties. As I noticed in an interview with the
leader by a radio anchor, aside from their opinion that the implementation is
half-baked as to their opinion (no enough funds yet to suffice the need for
more classrooms and pay more teachers), they are also concern of the wage hike
appeal (that has been buried with the
other requests educators are asking for) – I read their sentiments this way, that why
spend to k-12 while their petition snubbed?
Seems like willing to spend more on other improvements while not satisfying the
main force behind education- the
educators.
Why not give-in to those requests, Aquino Administration? If
that could end the rallies and talks about
K-12 disapproval?
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