A CRITICAL LOOK OF K TO 12 PROGRAM

A Privilege Speech Delivered by Rep. Mark Go

Mr. Speaker, my esteemed colleagues, ladies and gentlemen, today I rise on a

matter of personal and collective privilege.

Mr. Speaker, my dear colleagues, friends, our existing Republic Act 10533, the K

to 12 Basic Education Program Law is an innovative engine introduced by the

Department of Education to equip our young students the necessary skills and

educational background to assimilate them in the Philippine and international job

markets. As we all know, the additional two years transform the four years of high

school curriculum into a high-voltage educational locomotive. The K-12 program allows

the students sufficient time to master skills and absorb basic competencies. The new

assemble of high school curriculum, with the added emphasis for vocational skills,

music, arts, or sports, added with immersion providing them relevant exposure and

actual experience of their chosen track, will serve as a viable educational model

capable of producing graduates who can compete and excel in both local and

international arena.

As the K to 12 Basic Education Program has already been enacted into law, each

and every student is given the opportunity to be honed in all aspects as a human being

and to be fully equipped as he or she faces the real world. I firmly believe that this

important piece of legislation is the tool to attain our best desired development for our

country by acquisition of knowledge and skills.

 As of October last year, 5,965 public schools, operated and funded by DepEd,

are offering Grade 11 in 2016 and Grade 12 in 2017. While 4,910 private high schools,

private and public universities and colleges, technical-vocational schools, and Philippine

schools overseas are approved to offer the Senior High School Program.

This brings me to my point, and may I invite all of you to consider the possibility

of take a closer look of what this program has come so far. Yes, this is a working a

process. This is an existing transition of the country’s educational system. All of us are

bound to

Again, my dear colleagues, at this juncture, I appeal for your support to enable us to
arrive.

Thank you for this opportunity Mr. Speaker to speak on the matter. Thank you my dear
colleagues.