K+12 Program

K+12 Program

Julius Gervin T. Ang

IV-Diamond, PIQC

juliusang105@yahoo.com.ph

The Department of Education (DepEd) is planning to extend the basic education cycle from 10 years to 12 years. This will add 2 years of senior high school from the cycle of 10 years. Actually, Philippines is the only Asian country whose basic education is 10 years only. With K+12, students will be able to learn and educate more. They will be more mature than they were before. The only problem is that some students just wanted to finish high school as soon as possible to reach college for them to able to work.

Now, I will make my stand and for me, I am in favor of the K+12 program (Kindergarten plus 12 years). Why? It is because that students nowadays, they are becoming immature than ever. For example, we, our batch, most of us don’t have the qualities of a good leadership. We cannot lead the batch and because of our immaturity, we always have a problem. We cannot handle our time and that means we lack time management. This results to our stress and cram every day. We cannot even finish the whole chapters of a book. We lack knowledge and application of what we have learned. We also lack comprehension skills and these causes can affect other students from other schools also in the Philippines. For me, I am not doing my job that good and I’m also immature like others. And also my batch and I were very unfortunate because we didn’t reach the K+12 program.

Let’s observe the advantages of the K+12 program. You will have many job opportunities when you finish college with a basic education cycle of 12 years. You can even go master degree so that you can have more job opportunities from other countries. And let us not forget what will happen if the Philippines was engaged in this kind of program. What will happen to our economy? Definitely, it will grow faster than before and the unemployment rate will go down because many countries will offer many job opportunities here in our country. The other advantage of the program is that you and your batch will have longer bonding moments than the cycle of 10 years. And let us not forget that immaturity will no longer be a problem for the students. There will be more great leaders and more matured students exist in our country. And also more professionals will