Education system in the Philippines is low compared to other countries. Other countries are able to learn more advanced subjects and they are able to learn them properly. The reason why other countries are ahead of us in the educational aspect is because of the K+12 Curriculum. K+12 is a prolonged educational program that allows the students to learn more advanced subjects. Adding K+12 to the curriculum will enhance the education of the country because schools will not need to quicken the learning process of the students, will learn more advanced subjects and will provide greater employment options.
The definition of K+12 is a 13-year educational program from kindergarten until high school. Recently, it has been proposed to be used. By changing our curriculum, students will surely have a higher standard of education. Department of Education proposed this program to enhance the learning capabilities of the students.
This new curriculum provides students, as well as the country, many privileges with more time for students to study and understand their lessons; they will be able to do better in their exams. The students will be able to attain better education that will give them more job opportunities. Another reason why the Philippines has one of the lowest qualities of education in the world is because students are not given the right amount of time to understand their lessons. This change in our education will provide the country with a better economy. It only takes us 11-12 years to graduate from high school. It provides us with an extra year for teachers to teach more advanced subjects that students will take up only when they are in college. This will shorten the time of students’ stay in college.
Surely without K+12 curriculum, the quality of education in the Philippines is low. Even other countries with low economy in Asia have better quality of education than the Philippines. Some high school graduates do not have what it takes in working for an international kind of work. Without this kind of quality education, Filipinos will not be able to compete with a high-end job abroad. It will give the Philippines a chance to be a better country by starting with changing our curriculum.
Almost all of the countries in the world are having K+12 as their basic education program. As a result, all of them have better education that we, Filipinos, might not have been able to acquire if the proposal that was not made by the Department of Education. In fact, the Philippines was ranked one of the lowest in education last year.
Students need time for them to properly understand a lesson. K+12 provides students to have more time understanding the lessons, not just cramming them for a latter exam and forgetting them when the exams are over. K+12 gives them a chance to learn more, to enjoy learning in a calm and enjoyable manner, and understand them better. Students will be able to do a better job in their exams and will be able to attain a better education if they understand the lessons taught. In other countries, they have an extended year for the students to study and learn. Here in the Philippines, students are forced to cram for a test because of the less time given to education here.
K+12 does not only provide time for students to study. It also offers more subjects in which students can take during their high school years. In other countries, they study calculus and other advance subjects in their high school years, giving them lesser time in college. They need not quicken their learning paces because they have the time to follow the pace they currently have. Here in the Philippines, high schools are only given a short amount of time that’s why they can’t put any of the advanced subjects. Because of K+12, students in the Philippines will have a better education.
By: Julina Joy C. Berame
