My response is this, granted that the K+12 program is absolutely essential to improve the education system by additional two more years. this program for the most part will not improve the quality of education. Why because as a matter of fact it is the quality of education that is not improving. For one given the example Japan, South Korea, and the US has adopted in their curriculum to teach students at a very young age in technology, agriculture, politics, and other that will help their country's economy grow. These students at a very young age was given a first hand approach to learn how to developed new generations of computers, technologies to built alternative renewable energies, and others. while our country's school curriculum teaches our students origami, how to built baskets and bags, how to cook pandesal, how to grow pechays, which are all considered antiquated teaching systems. These some of the facts why the quality of education is not improving and lagging behind our neighboring countries. Our school needs new modern tools and not tweak to the system.
I can also conclude that this will not sit well with student parent's partly because of additional burdensome to their economy. If we do the math correctly average tuition per calendar year is at 15,000 pesos plus a modest daily allowance of 120 pesos excluding holidays that gives 16,800 in a year (2,400 month by 8 months less assumed 20 days of holidays) and unknown school expense at an average of 2,000. In a year alone a parent of one student will incurred an average of 33,800 pesos to send their kids to school. Much more if you have 4 kids that will be 3 times more.
