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HOLY ANGEL UNIVERSITY

BASIC EDUCATION DEPARTMENT
Senior High School
Angeles City

ENGLISH FOR ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL PURPOSES

Position Paper: Is K-12

Essential to Students?
Submitted by:

BADILLA, RAFAELA MAREJKA

CASTRO, ERIKA MAE
KOH, KYLA ANGELA
VILLANUEVA, MICHAL
DAVID, JOHN DOMINIC
GANTAN, LEAN SEBY
GARCIA, MARIUS JORDAN
SANCHEZ, ASHLHEE MHEL
Students from 11 – St. Madron

Submitted to:

MR. DOMINADOR N. DIZON JR

Teacher

FEBRUARY 2017

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Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere. Discovering things is a
significant thing for a young learner to strengthen his academic skills and personal capabilities
and strengths. By this current situation of time, we have protected the K-12 Basic Education
Curriculum. We have reinforced vital and critical services to various people after having the old
curriculum. In the first place, what is K-12 Education really all about? Is it essential for all
Filipino students? What does K-12 scheme really has to offer to Filipino students? A question
that already has its answers, but is also repeatedly stated over and over for clarifications and
validations. The new K-12 curriculum guide requires all Filipino students to spend one year
entering Kindergarten, six years of Elementary level (Grades 1 to 6), four years of Junior High
School (Grades 7 to 10), and two years of Senior High School (Grades 11 to 12). Preceding the
implementation of the K-12 curriculum guide, the Philippines was part of the three countries in
the world and the only one in Asia that still had only ten years of basic education. The longer
educational cycle of the K-12 curriculum is seen as critical in giving Filipino students a higher
quality of education. By this, we can tell that regardless of the time spent on students’ schooling,
K-12 Basic Education Program is essential to Filipino students.

Filipinos are known to be competitive in the international community. Filipinos

unfailingly possess global competence and high intellectual depth. The implementation of the K-
12 plan in the Philippine Basic Education Curriculum is the key to our nation’s development.
Though our government has faced countless problems involving the said program over the
course of several years, the K-12 program served a necessary improvement since it is a powerful
factor increasing the quality of our education and was scrutinized as a critical component to our
nation's success and global development. K-12 education is now gradually beginning to help
Filipinos gain a remarkably high competitive edge throughout nations and across the world.
Why is this curriculum said to be essential for most of the students? There are quite a lot
of reasons – first, dealing with the pioneer students. It is observed that this program has helped
the current “Senior High School” students to work under pressure. Not necessarily to work under
the things formulating stress, but to work within the given limited time to accomplish whatever
requirements they were asked to finish with. The said program has equipped them to be well-
prepared and for them to have sufficient knowledge on what kind of life they’ll be going to have
once they enter College and step out from their utmost comfort zones and face the reality the
world has to offer to them. Students are beginning to be observed that they can now be put into
the invisible aspect of working under the labor force, but actually still in the four corners of the
classroom. Not only this factor – K-12 has also contributed to the improvement of students
speaking their first and arterial language – their mother tongue, or their native language. As we
all perceive, this is a vital tool for students, particularly to a child’s personal and cultural identity.
Having the chance to learn his native language – aside from the teachings of his parents – is seen
as an effective way for these students to interact not only with the people around him, but also to
involve himself with his heritage. With this, according to an article published by Asian EFL
Journal, a person who is fluent to his native language is an individual who is competent in good
communication – Communication in which it plays a crucial role in an individual social
interaction and association. With the adaptation of this program, students are being trained to be
prepared for advanced learning. According to the Department of Education, with this idea,
students shall graduate with the age slightly older than those of the former group of graduates.
With dealing such, it would make them more mature, and they will be more exposed to a higher

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extent of absorbing and synthesizing information. Another important factor of this program is it
improves the production of students’ efficiency to connect to the workforce. By this time,
students are being taught on how to manage their time properly and rightly, with their given
performance tasks and other school projects and portfolios. Not only this, K-12 also enables
learners to make certain decisions on their own. It tends to make students prepared for their
college life. Another good thing about the program is that, one has already equipped his skills
through electives that have been taught to him in specific subjects. In line with this, the system
also aspires to boost and enhance the Filipino students’ deep mathematical and scientific
capabilities. It aims to dig deeper to a learner’s knowledge in these fields and make them more
proficient and skilled involving problems regarding the two subjects. One of the main objectives
of this curriculum is to generate future innovators that would lead every nation into the bound of
reaching success. Another target of the said program is to fulfill and satisfy the standards
required for professional workers who would want to work abroad. In our current situation,
students are now being taught on these professional acts, such as the improvement of having
such linguistic competence. K-12 redirect today’s generation to a concise and readily developed
path of learning. With this, it increases students’ possibility of completing and finishing formal
education.

However, it is certain and undeniable that there are these problems that arise and continue
to become apparent as we see the program, which could include: lack of budget, insufficient
classrooms, school supplies, and the unemployment of some teachers. But today, regarding the
budget, and things that follow, the government has already took place and worked on it. Another
opposing idea to this issue is, thought it has been implemented already, some of the students’
parents are still complaining about it, especially people who belong from the poor sectors of the
community. This factor has such great impact for parents’ role is vital in the schooling of their
children. Aside from this, there are also those unqualified teachers who cannot teach all those
students who they cover. There are these books which are unreliable – having several erroneous
texts on it; information which are inaccurate and undependable. But all these – are just results of
the sudden implementation of it. It would not cover the entirety of the said program, and
thorough improvements will be ahead. Teachers who are unqualified, does not primarily tell that
one should be of the highest level of intellectuality. It points out that one must have his broad
knowledge involving the subject he is designed to, and he should have the knowledge and
process on how to imply this information to his students.

To sum it all up, K-12 Basic Education Program is essential to Filipino students. There
are many important benefits and advantages that a lot of learners currently get from the K-12
curriculum. Filipino students have ample and adequate instructional time for subject-related
tasks. It nurtures a student’s intellectual abilities and skills. It makes them prepare for their future
workplace. It improves their mathematical and scientific depth through their elective subjects. It
generates innovators who shall lead in the technological revolution of the nation, and it enhances
one’s linguistic competence and mastery of such. K-12 optimizes not only their skills and edges,
but also their own ways of leadership and direction.

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