A. Resolved that, K-12 program of the Philippines is crucial to the Philippine economy?

 K-12 will only bring additional burdens to Filipino youth and their parents

We believe that K-12 will only make students and their parents bear the brunt of the high costs of education
and annual increases in tuition and other school fees. K-12 will further privatize and commercialize education.

At least 850,000 senior high school students are expected to study in state universities and private schools
offering senior high, where education is not free. Tuition for senior high in the Polytechnic University of the
Philippines, a state university, costs P16,000. On the other hand, tuition fees for senior high in private schools
range from P22,500 to P35,000 and even up to P70,000.

Because K-12 graduates can immediately start working, the government renders college education as non-
essential, a luxury or reserved only for advanced studies. This will only serve the government’s policy of
reducing, to a complete cut off of, public spending for state universities and colleges. The government will all
the more abandon tertiary education to businessmen owning private schools, who even now are raking in
billions in profits from annual increases in tuition and other school fees.

These will only increase the number of drop outs both in elementary and secondary levels and tertiary level
which currently stand at 4 million and 2.3 million respectively.

 K-12 will worsen current education woes

We believe that K-12 is not the solution to low-quality education. This program will aggravate instead the
country’s education crisis.

Education experts in an in-country study “Length of School Cycle and the Quality of Education” concluded
that there is “no basis” behind the claim that lengthening the education cycle will improve quality of
education.

Even without K-12, the government’s budgetary allocation for education could not even address the severe
lack of classrooms, teachers, textbooks, desks, sanitation and water facilities, and other basic needs. Touting K-
12 as a solution to the poor quality of education is actually a feeble attempt to cover up a more glaring fact: that
low-quality of education is a result of the government’s grave insufficient allocation of funds and foreign-
dictated policies.

Clearly, K-12 will bring no benefits, to the Filipino youth, parents, teachers and workers whether in the
short or long term. What we need is a nationalist and pro-people educational system, one that serves the Filipino
people’s aspirations for full human and national development.

REFERENCE:

https://www.change.org/p/teachers-youth-parents-stop-the-k-to-12-program
1. The government is not prepared to implement a 12-year Basic Education Cycle mandated by K to 12, as
manifested by the actual insufficiency of classrooms, libraries, toilets, and other facilities; textbooks, modules,
and other instructional materials; teachers, non-teaching staff, maintenance staff and other education sector
personnel in the old 10-year Basic Education Cycle.

2. The almost simultaneous implementation of three big educational reforms – Mother-Based Multilingual
Education (MTB-MLE) in the primary level, the creation of a two-year senior high school at the secondary
level, and the introduction of a trimmed down new General Education Curriculum (GEC) at the tertiary level –
is very problematic and prone to ineffective and inefficient implementation as the government’s limited
resources and personnel will be very stretched.

3. As proven by subpar National Achievement Test (NAT) results in recent years, the over-all quality of
education in the Philippines is bad and stagnant if not declining, thus, to improve the quality of education, the
government must prioritize the improvement of facilities and teacher training, and increasing the salaries of
teachers and non-teaching personnel especially those in public schools.

4. Considering that more than 20 million Filipinos are poor as per official government statistics (close to 40
million as per World Bank data), adding two more years in high school will certainly be financially burdensome
for many families at this point, hence it is an indirect assault to our people’s right to education. In some SUCs,
the proposed annual fees for senior high school will reach a whopping 16,000 pesos – a 1,600% increase in the
lowest tuition rate in the country, on top of other school-related expenses!

REFERENCE:

https://www.teacherph.com/10-reasons-why-the-k-to-12-program-should-be-suspended/

1. A prolonged beyond the usual tedious or longer years in school (plus 2 years). Extending for a considerable
distance than what’s necessary.

2. Graduates take time to produce and are two years older (23 years old instead of 21 before).

3. Parents have struggled financially or have been heavily laden already. They experience strains in their
monthly budgeting with the additional K12 two years: more for tuition fee increase, tediously burdened hearts
and pockets with the additional 2 years for tuition fee, school allowance and good food for the brain and health
of students. This happened on top of the desperate economic crisis induced by the COVID-19 pandemic.

4. Additional expenses for the working parents on their kids’ K12 school books, school projects, school events
which weigh down or encumbered parents’ finances.

5. Adds to harming the environment with more electric usage per added classrooms.

6, The K12 program adds harm to the environment by allocating more transports.

7. Some students resort to early teenage matrimonial wedding from being exhausted beyond endurance with
prolonged studies for two more years in the K12 program.

8. After graduating in the K12 Program, companies are hiring college graduates and not the K12 graduates.
Naturally, engineering companies would hire engineering graduates to successfully facilitate engineering works
for them, so why hire a K12 graduates in that aspect? Similarly, hospitals would employ trained nurses to do
delicate work and not the K12 students because, simply put, nursing graduates are better equipped for that
certain line of hospital work.

REFERENCE:

https://simplyeducate.me/2022/06/29/k12-education/

REFERENCE:

https://studymoose.com/the-impact-of-k-12-in-philippine-education-essay