Fears of lack of preparation allayed in summit
K to 12’s SHS IMPLEMENTATION
“NEVER fear” was the message of Department of Education Secretaty Armin Luistro to participants that attended the National Senior High School (SHS) Summit sponsored by the Department of Education and the Australian Agency for International Development (AUSAID) at Diamond Hotel in Manila last week.
Imelda Gonzales, president of the Federated Parents Teachers Association (PTA) of Dagupan who attended the summit, said Secretary Luistro allayed fears by citing the track record of the Aquino administrtation has in putting up school buildings throughout the country having constructed 3,291 buildings in 2010 which increased in 2015 or in just a span of five years to 41,728.
LUISTRO AND GONZALES
On hearing him, half of the participants to that summit who initially doubted that the SHS program will succeed because of lack of preparation, were self-assured and are pushing for the full implementation of the SHS program in the country.
“This means that if we will really do it, we can do it,” said Gonzales who believes that Mayor Fernandez is the most vital cog in implementing the SHS.
Mayor Belen T. Fernandez was named by the League of Cities of the Philippines as the focal person nationwide for the implementation of the SHS program.
“The coming ASEAN integration that is due to start this year, the SHS under K to 12, is our assurance that we can level up with the rest of our neighbors”.
“We really are behind in our educational system. Now is the time to implement the senior high school program” she intoned, noting that those who question K to 12 must first listen and study the program before opposing.
On the fear of parents that the K to 12 will increase their expenses, she said that some of the subjects like Science, Technology, English and Math or STEM or Accounting, Business Management (ABM) Humanities and Social Sciences (HUMSS), Arts and Designs and others can be credited once the students will go to college.
Some of the Technical Vocational and Livelihood subjects to be offered are bread, pastry, cookery, food and beverage, beauty and nail care, wellness and massage, hairdressing, etc.
Gonzales said more private schools are joining the SHS program since they will be paid by the government through the voucher system granted to their students at normally P16,000 per student. (Leonardo Micua)
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