The Pros and Cons of K-12

The Pros and Cons of K-12


By: Ian Remetilia
Since Department of Education’s (DepEd) implementation of K-12 on 2011, DepEd has been getting a lot of feedback, mostly negative, from people who are wondering about its benefits or if it can bring any benefit at all. Nevertheless, the 12-year basic education pushed through. After being compared with the former curriculum, K-12 has been officially approved by the then President Benigno Simeon “Noynoy” C. Aquino III on 2013, saying that the 10-year pre-university cycle is “congested” and that K-12 will “give everyone an equal chance to succeed” and “have quality education and profitable jobs”.

            K-12, being approved by the president himself surely has many advantages in store for its graduates and the Philippines. DepEd promised world-class competence by immersing students into a new education system—one year of kindergarten, six years of elementary education, four years of junior high school and 2 years of senior high school. Basically, a student will have to experience a 13-year long schooling. Furthermore, the students of K-12 were also promised a myriad of job opportunities as early as being a senior high school graduate. Should the students decide to pursue college, the units that they will be taking will be reduced.

            The said benefits are yet to be felt while the disbenefits are already taking its toll. K-12 required DepEd to have more funds. Approximately, P367.1 billion was the budget given to DepEd for the construction of classrooms, repairs, books, teachers, etc. This increase of school-related expenses did not affect the government alone. For the majority of Filipinos, a longer schooling cycle only meant spending more money. Furthermore, many students are in danger of dropping out of school because of the additional two years in school.

            The main edge of K-12, as promised, is that it will produce world-competent graduates in the hopes of shaping the Philippines to be more productive with the help of its greatly improved curriculum to meet the world’s standards. K-12 comes with its pros and cons. Its main drawback is the probable increase of dropouts since its implementation if that happens, the rate of unemployed youth will also increase and that is not one of K-12’s goals.


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