ARE WE READY FOR SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL?
Many questions have been asked, many heated debates have been done, but the issue remains: Are our pubic schools, even our student, ready for senior high school? Good things have been said about senior high school, distilled into the following: 1. It's about being at par with global standard in basic education cycle. Yes, it is true. Other ASEAN nations have more or less 12 years in basic education while ours is stuck with 10. Our graduates, when they go abroad for employment, are made to undergo 2 years "bridging" education, because they know our basic education is only pegged at 10 years, no more, no less. So it's about time to address this disparity.Move on with a 12 year basic education cycle. 2. It's about employability. Our graduates usually graduate at the age of 17 or 17, which is still not the legal employment age, which is 18. When our graduates finish the K-12 cycle, it will be at age 18 at the earliest, which means they can be employed (if they hav...