K12 Educational System

Republic of the Philippines
    Nueva Ecija University of Science and Technology
      Sumacab Este ,Cabanatuan City, Nueva Ecija

College of Management and Business Technology

THE K+12 MODELS FOR THE PHILIPPINE EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM,
IT’S STATUS AND EFFECT TO THE SCHOOLS,
TEACHER’S AND PARENTS IN CABANATUAN CITY

An undergraduate Thesis
Presented to
The Faculty of College of Management and Business Technology

In partial Fulfillment of the
Requirement for the Subject
Research I
By:
Cristel Flororita
Trisha Mariano
Rhea May Padilla
Joy Frances Ramones
Romeo Sarte
CHAPTER 1
THE PROBLEM AND ITS BACKGROUND
1.1 Introduction
The enhanced K-12 program, or the Department of Education’s (DepEd) proposal to overhaul the basic and secondary education curriculum by adding two more years to the system is arguably one of the most drastic and controversial programs of the Aquino administration.
The program is proposed to start in school year 2012-2013 for Grade 1 and first year high school students with the target of full implementation by SY 2018-2019.
K-12 has been met with criticism from youth and student groups, teachers, parents and the academic community. The DepEd, for its part, appears determined to enact the program with its proposed budget catering mostly to preparing the grounds for its eventual implementation.
The DepEd argues that the K-12 program will be the solution to yearly basic education woes and the deteriorating quality of education. Critics, however, counteract that the education crisis needs to be addressed more fundamentally and adding more school years would only exacerbate the situation.
The K-12 model is an educational system for basic and secondary education patterned after the United States, Canada, and some parts of Australia. The current basic education system is also an archetype of American schooling but with a 10-year cycle.
DepEd reasons that it is high time to adopt a K-12 system, attributing the low...