“The K to 12 is bound to fail because it was implemented hurriedly without thorough planning.”
The Enhanced Basic Education Curriculum is bound to fail because for a curriculum to be
successful every steps of developing it must also be successful. How will the K to 12 Curriculum
succeed if even in the first step, it has already failed? Planning is the most crucial part of
developing curriculum and determining the needs of the students, teachers, community and the
society takes more time than implementing and evaluating. Planning is the core of all successful
implementation and evaluation results. One question in planning would be “Will the curriculum
provide the things needed?”
Long before the implementation of the K to 12 curriculum, the budgeting for education has
long been the problem in the Philippines. One good example is the lack of learning facilities,
materials and training for teachers. The funds are not even enough to provide our education these
tangible necessities. How will the curriculum be successfully implemented if the schools do not
have enough classrooms to shelter the students and learning? The improvement of facilities and
teacher training must be prioritized first. At a time when even many college graduates were unable
to find jobs, the goal of a promising easy employment after graduation was not come into
realization because many companies still do not accept K to 12 graduates as their employees and
thus resulting to an evaluation of more jobless youth.
The same structural and personal problems that have always followed Filipino students and
the Philippine education system are still there resulting to ineffective and inefficient
implementation of education reforms because of the limited resources and the much stretched
personnel. It is bound to fail if planning has failed to recognize the more pressing problems like
lack of school buildings, insufficient number of teachers, low salaries of teachers, lack of learning
materials and books. If planning has already failed, the rest of the steps are also bound to fail even
the curriculum itself.