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    Effects of K-12 On The Financial Status of Every Family - Magbanua

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    The document discusses the Philippine K-12 education program which added two years to the previous 10-year basic education program, bringing it in line with other countries. It aims to better prepare students for work or further education. While intended to improve quality, some disadvantages are noted, such as increased costs burdening less wealthy families and delaying entry to careers like medicine that require additional schooling after K-12. Resources should be allocated properly and equally so financial status does not bias access to education opportunities.

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    The document discusses the Philippine K-12 education program which added two years to the previous 10-year basic education program, bringing it in line with other countries. It aims to better prepare students for work or further education. While intended to improve quality, some disadvantages are noted, such as increased costs burdening less wealthy families and delaying entry to careers like medicine that require additional schooling after K-12. Resources should be allocated properly and equally so financial status does not bias access to education opportunities.

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    Effects of K-12 On The Financial Status of Every Family - Magbanua

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    The Philippine K-12 curricular program provides at least one year of Kindergarten

    education and a total of twelve years of basic education similar with most of the countries
    in the world. The addition of two years on the former ten-year basic education program
    was envisioned for mastery of learning making learners better prepared for the world of
    work besides the conventional belief of just preparing them for collegiate education. (K-
    12 Basic Education Program, The Official Gazette, 2012; K-12 Primer ǀK-12
    Update Teachers’ Lounge, 2013) The implementation of the K-12 curriculum in the
    Philippines started in 2012 beginning with grade 1 and grade 7 learners and the
    succeeding levels were introduced as these students get promoted to the next grade levels
    in the ensuing school year. Prior to this, the Kindergarten Education Act was
    implemented in school year 2011–2012 by virtue of Republic Act 10157; the law
    institutionalized the inclusion of kindergarten education into the basic education system
    of the Philippines (PhilStar.com.,2012). Subsequently, Republic Act 10533 also known as
    the “Enhanced Basic Education Act of 2013” enabled the implementation of the K-12 in
    the country (The Official Gazette,2013).

    In the articles “Additional Years in Philippine Basic Education” by the SEAMEO-


    INNOTECH (2010)and the K-12 PrimerǀK-12 Update in Teachers’ Lounge of Rex
    publishing (2013), the comparative data on the length of basic and pre-university
    education in Asia was explained and showed the Philippine education system provides
    only ten (10) years for the basic education cycle and as the preparatory education for the
    collegiate level while most of the countries around the globe have either 11 or 12 years of
    basic education cycle. The ten-year Philippine basic education system became a
    disadvantage for Filipino workers abroad and for those who intend to study outside the
    Philippines.

    While the purpose of K-12 is so we can be with the same quality of education with
    other countries, it may be a disadvantage to those students who are aspiring to become
    doctors, lawyers and the like because it takes 10 or more years to become one and
    because of the additional years in high school, these students are going to finish their
    education at a late age and will cost for a larger financial budget. Another disadvantage of
    K-12 is that with the two added years in K-12, the student population in schools will
    increase thus, the need for additional classrooms, teachers and other necessary facilities
    that will require more finances spent by schools, private and public alike. Another effect
    on financial status of K-12 is on the less fortunate citizens of the country who can barely
    even send all their children to elementary school. What more now that there would be two
    years added to their school years?

    From what I have learned in the Christian faith and in sociology, all the resources
    found above and beneath the earth is all made for mankind and for all of God’s creation
    so we must allocate the resources properly and equally. Opportunities in education must
    not be biased based on financial status.

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