The Introduction Of K+12 Education In The Philippines

The educational system in the Philippines is undergoing a big change which most academicians

deteriorating quality of education in the country. The K-12 system has introduced and it is the system used

by the United States and other well-known countries (Maureen, 2011). K-12 is composed of kinder garden

and 1st to 12th grade while the 13th grade is the start of 1st year in the college level. Through K-12 system

the students will have better job opportunities because other countries embrace this system however it will

take students longer to achieve it.

Many aspects of society are being affected with this change of education system. Families will

have a hard time providing their children’s needs because of the longer years but the

government has provided us many public schools that they can go to and study. Although we can have these

schools, poor families tend to stop their children’s education because of the lack of funds and they send their

children to work or beg for money so that they can meet their daily needs and wants. Another benefit or

advantage if K-12 system is that students performance might get affected because of the changing of the

system. Students could improve their performance because many topics can be tackled and learned by the

students because of the longer years they stay in school. Although this sounds good

but most students will get bored because they would think that this is unfair for them to spend more years in

school and might affect the students’ performance. And last teachers’ lack of benefits might hinder them to

approve the system because of this problem. Teachers should have improved benefits with this approval plus

the ratio between the teachers and the students is very high. Despite all of these problems, the teachers have

the desire to educate students even though the lack of benefits could affect them but that is why they took

teaching as a proffesion in the first place.

Overall the K-12 system has positive and negative effects to the community but despite the

controversies that surrounded it, this will go on and be implemented next year to grade 1 students and so

on. K-12 system could help students in the future for a better life and chances to have better jobs.. And this

system is nice because students can have more lessons that the previous system didn't meet is one advantage

and the other is when you go abroad it you could easily get hired because most countries have this system

as their form of education.

[Draft] By: Jesse Anday Solante