The K-12 program is an educational system started by the Aquino Administration. The Government would add two years plus Kindergarten to the ten years of basic education. Many people think that this program is unnecessary and insignificant but the others say it will help improve not only the educational system but the Philippines as a whole. Which is which? Whatever side you take it’s sure to affect the people around you, the students, colleges and universities, teachers and professors, and most of all the future parents that is ought to send their children to school, and that is us. Yes us, we are involved no matter how hard we try to shrug this issue off and it will surely affect us in one way or another we are the concern in this phenomenal issue thus, let us be involved.
There are many pro arguments for the K-12 Program but there are two which I think are the most important. The first argument, it will enhance the Quality of Education, being a third world country indeed improvements that will give way to a high quality education is very much needed. The K-12 program shall pave the way to a higher standard of education for it will add more subjects to the present curriculum thereby providing the students’ more knowledge and skills. Secondly, the high school education will become an expanded Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) as it will offer different vocational skills such as; bartending, cooking, welding, wiring, dressmaking and many more. Let’s face it, not everyone who finishes high school in the Philippines will go to college most high school students will look for work after they