This was around the time when the government started to push through the K-12 curriculum. On February 23, 2013, I wrote this article:
https://rolex8.wordpress.com/2013/02/23/k-12/
The government actually thought of this way back (or as I assume, prompting me to question BS Aquino’s intellectual capacity), however they never really brought the issue to the public as of the time that I wrote the article.
By now, the government has already sneakily shoved it up our heads like parasites becoming in tune with a host. Yes we know about it, but it has already been accepted and this I don’t know why.
In fact, it has been even embraced by a majority of the population, in part because of educational influence. Private schools will gladly embrace it and will promote it. Considering all of the income from students wanting a diploma – extra years, more books (with commission), more activities (which require students to spend), more rooms, tables and chairs (with commission), and they may even add a classy new uniform for those special senior high-schoolers.
Other than those ultra-elite private schools in which Metro Manila dwells in, we often forget about the less fortunate which don’t have enough money to use the facilities seen as less needed luxuries or those nice uniforms. All they would care about is a good education to get a good job and live a comfortable or at least a decent life.
What they would fear is that they lose the opportunity to get the education they so desperately need over the ever increasing costs that they would need to at least go to school everyday.
It is a bad idea that we would put too much at one time into the mouths that we cannot even feed. This seems like the curriculum was rushed into implementation over the short time period of only 3 years – only insinuated by BS Aquino himself to be fully functional by 2016 so that only he would get credit himself.
We did not even repair classrooms from Typhoon Haiyan yet. The rubble of Zamboanga City was blacked out from the media and covered with a new Typhoon which was soon to be blacked out too, with some showbiz news getting in the way.
If we cannot even fix these problems then how can we even stand for a strong educational system under K-10 itself? How could even the craziest idea of implementing K-12 come to the minds of these officials if they couldn’t even handle the simplest of problems the country has to offer?
Under this system we would at least hope for a better curriculum – one which would make only the most brilliant of lawyers, doctors, engineers, architects, scientists, accountants, and other great men and women of society.
That is an idea we as of now could not even think of. It is only a dream, kept away in the brains of men aspiring to lead the nation into greatness who’s ideas are far to radical to be carried out and implemented within the country. Sadly we may never see these ideas come to light – safely tucked away into the hands of oligarchs.
Even private schools are seeing the falter of the supposedly ‘great-before-K12-was-implemented’ scheme. No lie, we had no good curriculum even before K-12 was implemented. But I would think different, because as I said before we actually have a very advanced curriculum compared to America.
The thing is – we don’t just want to be good, we want to be great. Even with this greatness, why don’t I see this on every day news? America is a land of opportunity as they say, and that’s how most would view America to be even if they themselves would think differently. It is because of this belief and America’s influence over the world that we would want to change thinking it would be better.
BS Aquino fell prey to weak ideologies and the wold of globalization. Maybe to come out to the world and unveil the Philippine’s new image under his term but honestly who gives a fuck? After all, the Philippines may and forever will be – a crowd of immature high school students.
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