K-12 Program Research Paper

In spite of the government’s intention of improving the quality of education and solving the unending problem of unemployment, there are problems that should be addressed and there are uncertainties that should be considered before continuing the K-12 program. K-12 program should be rescinded because of its uncertainty in solving unemployment, its problem in having shortages of facilities and materials in some schools, its effect in increasing expenses, and its inefficiency in improving the quality of education.
K-12 program in the Philippines should be rescinded because of its uncertainty in solving unemployment. One of the reasons for implementing K-12 program is to make the high school graduates employable but there is no assurance of getting
K-12 aims to give quality basic education to make the students readily employable but there are problems with the textbooks produced for this program. Before implementing this program, there are already DepEd books that have errors. There are words like “Unexcitement”, “lakslustre”, and “DNA alternation” which was supposed to be “DNA alteration”. DepEd said that the claimed error books were the old ones. However, there are some reports which says that the books are still in use. There are also reports that these books were used for the training of teachers. According to DepEd Assistant Secretary Jesus Matedo, the old errored books were used by the English teachers for their training. If the government wants to improve the quality of education, it should produce books immediately that are free from errors. According to Senator Ferdinand “Bongbong” R. Marcos Jr., the country should focus upgrading the materials and the training for teachers. These processes will improve the quality of education, not adding two more years in high school. The government argues that adding two more years will improve the quality of education but the adding of two more years has nothing to do with quality but quantity. Another thing that the government should focus is to strengthen or improve the education system in the country. Instead of focusing on standardized tests, the schools should focus more on application. Although testing is a good because it is a way of knowing how much you have remembered from the discussions, application is better because it is a good way of knowing how much you have learned. Learning the subject and applying it will make the students remember it on a long-term. Thus, the government should focus on improving the quality and not adding the quantity of