K-12 Curriculum Implementation

It will eventually fall into place”

Big changes are always susceptible to both positive and negative effects. As such, the biggest change yet for Filipino students may be the recent implementation of the new K-12 Curriculum. As a matter of fact, the said enactment of the government-mandated law, primarily changing the overall system of education in the country also led to many benefits and detriments. Unfortunately, the latter seems to outweigh the former. Likewise, the party that is greatly affected by the detriments brought about by the transition would be the Senior high school students, dubbed as the “guinea pigs” of the K-12 High School Curriculum. Accordingly, the said detriments must be addressed immediately in order to prevent future

Through the revisions and reforms that will be performed, the entire curriculum will have a lesser rate of error or fault that was previously rampant prior to such reforms. Furthermore, changes and adjustments in the mandated curriculum may also open doors for improvement and stability of the educational system that is being imposed. In effect, a more concrete and stable basic educational system will be established and is no longer susceptible to error that leads to misunderstandings, confusion and other conflict in terms of legality and

Furthermore, the K-12 Curriculum might have a long way to go and must also be open for revisions and clarifications in order for it to be a more effective means of establishing specific standards for the basic educational system in the Philippines. It can be deduced that despite the adverse effects brought about by this government-mandated law, there are still solutions which might serve as a silver lining and a sign that this transition is not entirely a failure nor entirely ineffective; it simply states how it must be revised and bettered in order for it to lessen its negative effects and the problems that are rooted from such. Undoubtedly, it’s not yet over for the K-12 Curriculum. It could eventually redeem itself and solutions must also be considered in addressing the problems concerned. These solutions include: reforms in the curriculum, changes in the monitoring bodies in the Department of Education and maintenance of schools nationwide. This just goes to show that the K-12 Curriculum is not to be phased out nor a complete failure; everything will eventually fall in to