I.most parents cannot afford the extra two years A.

Parents have to shell out more money for (transportation, clothes, food, projects, and incidentals) for the education of their children. -The primary reason for dropping out of school is economic. -Parents would rather have their children stay uneducated than risk entire families going hungry or getting into indescribable debt. The plan, according to its opponents, worsens rather than lessens poverty. II.The government does not have the money to pay for two more years of free education A.The K+12 program will not significantly impact the quality of our basic education because we do not have enough resources to see it through. The government does not allocate enough money to education. We spend less than 3 percent of our gross domestic product (GDP) on it, well below the UNESCO recommended 6 percent. All anyone needs to do is to look at the classrooms to know that our public school system does not receive adequate funding. This is why even if the DepEd received the highest budgetary allocation among all government agencies for the last two decades, the quality of basic education has not improved proportionately. -since it does not even have the money to fully support todays ten years. DepEd must first solve the lack of classrooms, furniture and equipment, qualified teachers, and error-free textbooks. III.We can do in ten years what everyone else in the world takes 12 years to do.Why do we have to follow what the rest of the world is doing? We are better than all of them A. Filipinos right now are accepted in prestigious graduate schools in the world, even with only ten years of basic

education IV.The problem is the content, not the length, of basic education A.As far as the curriculum is concerned, DepEd should fix the current subjects instead of adding new ones -we need to have better education, not more education. V.A high school diploma will not get anybody anywhere A.because business firms will not hire fresh high school graduates. VI. Every family dreams of having a child graduate from college VII.While students are stuck in Grades 11 and 12, colleges and universities will have no freshmen for two years. A.This will spell financial disaster for many private Higher Education Institutions (HEIs). VIII.The drop-out rate will increase because of the two extra years.