k12

         Although it is a brilliant idea to start upgrading our educational system with the K 12 program, it’s probably not the proper time to execute this program. It’s good that the government wants to address this problem but I think that this does not solve the bigger issues like unemployment and underemployment. I mean, yes we are competent but where would these fine students go if there would be no job available here? They would just go abroad and we would be missing out a lot of competent workers that would cost us opportunities.

For me, a better way to address our educational inferiority and never-ending battle to poverty is to supply these aspiring labourers job opportunities that would suffice not only their needs but the country as well. I’m talking about creating more job opportunities as teachers in our country. Not that I completely ignore the idea that students are encouraged to take up education. It’s just that being a teacher in this country lost its sense of “opportunity”. It’s like why should I be a teacher if I could earn more by being an engineer of a businessman. It is no longer seen as something advantageous because nothing would be gained out of it. It will just make you provide with a lot of investment in order to become a promising high-waged professor in private school. Furthermore, it’s probably high time that our country should also make a job craze like what other countries did with our nurses. The last job craze that occurred here in our country is when call centers flourished at every district in Metro Manila. This is very alarming because it will undermine the quality of job our labourers would go after for.  

                It would be a lot better if our government would allot more funds to pay our teachers, just enough to keep them happy with their jobs. I mean instead of giving funds to provide everyone with condoms why not just allocate it to the salaries of our public school teachers. Not only will it attract more to become a teacher, it will increase the chances of quality teachers which would provide quality education. It would eradicate the disproportional ratio of teachers to students and students can learn more. With such positive effects, k12 could no longer be necessary and parents will no longer have to put up with two more years of exasperating tuition fees.

- Ferdinand Badillo