The country doesn’t seem prepared for it.
“Senator Antonio ‘Sonny’ Trillanes IV said on Tuesday, July22, that the K to 12 program should be suspended until the government has resolved the current fundamental problems of the country’s education system as well as the projected problems it would encounter at the start of its scheduled full implementation in 2016,” reports Manila Bulletin.
Aside from the lack of classrooms and school materials, high student-teacher ratio, and low salaries of teachers, Trillanes said the government doesn’t seem to know how to deal with the “threatened retrenchment of about 85,000 college professors and employees when the program starts in 2016.”
The report noted: “Trillanes said the poor quality of the country’s system would only be solved by first addressing these fundamental problems.”
Moreover, Trillanes also chided the government’s claim that there are no longer any classroom backlogs. He observed, “That is not true. There are still a lot of schools which continue to use make-shift classrooms, or take shifts in using classrooms just to accommodate their students. This situation would even worsen once two batches of students would be absorbed in addition to the four levels of high school that we have now.”
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