The “bahala na” in K to 12

THE K to 12 educational curriculum which started implementation in 2011 with the compulsory enrollment of children in kindergarten is set to implement the next major phase, the senior high schools (SHS) phase.

Without a doubt, the shift from the country’s usual six years of primary schooling and 4 years of secondary education has become imperative for the country in order to make Filipinos competitive in the global world. The time has come.

However, there is still a strong opposition to the implementation of the SHS. The most valid argument yet is the still serious lack of facilities in our public schools to accommodate SHS. The lack of classrooms will compel many parents to spend more for the additional two years to support their children who will have to move to other locations owing to the shortage in their communities. The second is the displacement of college professors whose services won’t be needed for the next two years since there won’t be any college freshmen until they graduate from their senior year.

However, the DepEd is unfazed and wants to proceed even if faced by the unresolved contentious issues. Dagupan City and perhaps the rest of the Pangasinan School Divisions are better prepared for the implementation but the burden to be borne by private colleges will remain. The synchronization is clearly wanting and counter-productive. Bahala na?

We support the move to postpone the SHS implementation for a year or two until such time DepEd can reasonably say the quality of the SHS education is assured, meaning there are enough classrooms, enough quality books and enough qualified teachers.

The “bahala na” posture of DepEd today is worrisome, at the very least.

 

Our own is our own

WHEN our own gets hurt, we also get hurt.  We suffer his pain.  We absorb his humiliation.  Manny Pacquiao lost to Floyd Mayweather Jr. and his defeat was also our defeat.  That’s because our nation also fights when Pacquiao fights—PacMan being our national treasure, living legend.  Every punch he throws in the ring is also the people’s punch.  Every win he scores is also ours to embrace ecstatically, emphatically.

In fact, we have so idolized Pacquiao to the point that we tend to be blinded by his flaws.  We looked the other way at the height of his gambling sprees, boozing and even womanizing—all human imperfections that he said he had all dumped when he switched religions. He made another mistake when he hid his shoulder injury before fighting Mayweather.  It was a monumental indiscretion but did we bash him?  Did we have the heart to condemn our very own?

Right or wrong, our own is our own.  We don’t eat our own.

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