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    The document discusses concerns about the proposed K+12 education program in the Philippines. It summarizes that the program will add two more years to basic education, but will burden parents financially and may not solve existing problems in the education system regarding facilities, teachers, and textbooks. Additionally, it is questioned why the Philippines needs to follow other countries in lengthening education when Filipinos are already accepted to prestigious graduate programs abroad with only 10 years of basic education. Instead of adding years, the document suggests the government should focus on increasing education spending, regulating tuition increases, improving the curriculum and teachers' welfare, and developing science and technology.

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    The document discusses concerns about the proposed K+12 education program in the Philippines. It summarizes that the program will add two more years to basic education, but will burden parents financially and may not solve existing problems in the education system regarding facilities, teachers, and textbooks. Additionally, it is questioned why the Philippines needs to follow other countries in lengthening education when Filipinos are already accepted to prestigious graduate programs abroad with only 10 years of basic education. Instead of adding years, the document suggests the government should focus on increasing education spending, regulating tuition increases, improving the curriculum and teachers' welfare, and developing science and technology.

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    K+12 Program in The Philippines

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    The document discusses concerns about the proposed K+12 education program in the Philippines. It summarizes that the program will add two more years to basic education, but will burden parents financially and may not solve existing problems in the education system regarding facilities, teachers, and textbooks. Additionally, it is questioned why the Philippines needs to follow other countries in lengthening education when Filipinos are already accepted to prestigious graduate programs abroad with only 10 years of basic education. Instead of adding years, the document suggests the government should focus on increasing education spending, regulating tuition increases, improving the curriculum and teachers' welfare, and developing science and technology.

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    PENA, Clyde Ian Brett C.

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    March 16, 2015

    K+12 Program in the Philippines


    The Aquino administration proposed a two-year extension to the 10-year basic education
    cycle to lift the quality of education. The new curriculum will allow specialization in science and
    technology, music and arts, agriculture and fisheries, sports, business, and entrepreneurship, and
    others. Students will be expected to be fully armed to enter the work world even without a
    college degree. These all sound very nice, but if we get down to the bottom line, it doesnt sound
    that appealing.
    The K+12 (Kindergarten plus 12) program will be a great burden on the part of the
    parents since they will be the ones to shell out more money for the education of their children.
    The government does not have the money to subsidize for two more years of free education,
    since it does not even have the money to fully support todays ten years. The Department of
    Education must first solve the problems regarding lack of classrooms, furniture and equipment,
    qualified teachers, and error-free textbooks. We can do in ten years what everyone else in the
    world takes 12 years to do so why do we have to follow what the rest of the world is doing? We
    can level with them with our previous situation. Filipinos right now are accepted in prestigious
    graduate schools around the world, even with only ten years of basic education.
    As far as the curriculum is concerned, the Department of Education should fix the current
    subjects instead of adding new ones. The problem is the content, not the length, of basic
    education. A high school diploma will not get anybody too far in the entry level because business
    firms will not hire fresh high school graduates and will opt to choose professional, university
    graduates. While students are stuck in Grades 11 and 12, colleges and universities will have no

    freshmen for two years. This will spell financial disaster for many private colleges and
    universities.
    Therefore, instead of adding years, the government must focus on measures aimed at
    increasing state spending on education, stopping unjust tuition and other fee increases in all
    levels, promoting a nationalist curriculum, upholding democratic rights of students, improving
    teachers welfare, and improve science, research and technology development.

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