Noynoy Aquino, The elected president of the Philippines, announced his 10-point basic education agenda. These are his plans for the education system of our country. What are my thoughts on these?
1. 12-year Basic Education Cycle.
1. 12-year Basic Education Cycle.
His intentions might be very good but I still don’t see the big necessity of our country for it this time. I can see that this can be beneficial to us but I also see some bad points about this. First of all, are we really a lot left behind from other countries? Though most countries adopt the 12 years of basic education, I still have a lot of doubts that our country needs this. I know that this would be helpful that students would learn a lot more. I understand that this could fully harness their potential, talents, and abilities to think better as they grow older and this could provide a better preparation for college. With all these benefits, I believe it may also cause more problems for our country. This project would cause a lot of parents to suffer more. Parents would be a lot more burdened to work extremely hard just to pay expenses. This could cause the inability of parents to send their children to school. Isn’t it that a lot of students aren’t able to go to school because of poverty and inability to pay for the tuition fees and other expenses in school? If this project would be implemented at this time, the number of children who are unable to go to school would greatly increase. So I strongly suggest that Mr. President should think about it very hard. The Philippines is not yet ready for this.
2. Universal pre-schooling for all.
In my opinion, this is much more beneficial to our country rather than the first of his agenda. This would help a lot for the teachers. It would make children at a great advantage especially that it AVAILABLE TO ALL CHILDREN REGARDLESS OF INCOME.
3. Madaris education as a sub-system within the education system.
For me, this is very thoughtful of P-noy considering that Muslims need it very much. This is a very good way to show that we consider our Muslim brothers as equal citizens of our country.
4. Technical vocational education as an alternative stream in senior high school.
This is the agenda that I agree the most. It would make a lot of benefits for us high school students. This program will help us to better prepare for college. In my opinion, this should be implemented.
5. “Every child a reader” by Grade 1.
I think that this should be implemented as soon as possible. Why would we observe it only in the school year 2015-2016? This would be very helpful to the future generations.
6. Science and Math proficiency
I hope that this would really be implemented. This would provide smarter students for our country. I hope that our country would be able to have enough money for this project.
7. Assistance to private schools as essential partners in basic education
This would be very good for the country. This would give a lot of benefits to the private school students.
8. Medium of instruction rationalized
I think that this is great considering that this will be a great help for the Philippines to be at par with the world.
9. Quality textbooks
This is good as long as the government will have enough money to provide these books. The students of our country would be very happy if this would be implemented at once. This would provide better education.
10. Covenant with the local governments to build more schools
This would be very beneficial to us but I think Mr. President should give it more thought. Should we really be spending more to build schools?
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