OVERCOMING HINDRANCES FACED BY SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS –

AN EVALUATION OF THE K-12 PROGRAM

CHAPTER 1 – THE PROBLEM AND ITS BACKGROUND

A. Rationale

K-12 basic education program was implemented on October 5, 2010. This is part of

President Benigno “Noy Noy” Aquino lll educational reform program. The administration believes

that adding more years to basic education in Philippines could help to solve the problem of

unemployment and help the students to think deeply and have more time to the career that suits

their skills.K-12 has been one of the greatest issues in the country ever since it was implemented.

The addition of 2 years is expected to raise our students on equal with the other school systems

and Asia and globally. It shows that our country is continuously getting more and more globally

competitive.K-12 basic education program is implemented worldwide except for the country

Djibouti and Angola. In Asia, we are the last country to implement K-12. Contrary to what most

people know, not all schools will offer Grades 11 and 12 (Senior High). Some schools will not

offer them not because they do not want to, but because they cannot. If a school (public or private)

does not offer senior high, the student needs to look for another school that offers senior high. In

Senior high, student have the freedom to choose what specialization called “tracks” they want to

take. The major tracks that students can choose from are the Academic, Technical-Vocational,

Sports, and Arts and Design. Hence, students must undergo this program to test several assessment,

career assessment and to determine their interests and strengths before they move to another

journey. Through this students are properly guided to their decision for their future. In a
historic moment for advocates of educational equity.

President Benigno Aquino III approved Republic Act (RA) 10533, signing into law the

K+12 program on May 15, 2013. President Aquino stated that k-12 program that this law will

empower the next generation of Filipinos. The goal of achieving educational equity shares and

teaches vision as we leave mark on our country. This is to ensure that what is taught and imparted

to students is adequate and beneficial to them. This program also wanted the students to learn more

for their nearest future; hence, students can have time to think and decide through experiences and

enough knowledge that they will get from two (2) years extension. In 2016, DepEd started the first

batch of senior high school in the country. By the year 2018, the first graduates of the two

additional years in senior high school were produced.

Authentic forerunners show that it was never an issue of whether Philippines ought to

receive K to 12. With the present outlook changes in instruction, and with the foundation of

capabilities reference systems provincially and all inclusive, this long-past due overhaul has

become a goal. At last, in 2010, the new organization recognized training change at the

exceptionally top of its needs, and pushed for this change through the Enhanced Basic Education

Program or K-12. K to 12 is not only a question of including two additional long stretches of

school; it is the result of many years of study, and a bigger procedure of changing the training

segment overall.

The section of the Enhanced Basic Education Program Act of 2013 or Republic Act 10533

expects to guarantee the congruity of the change past this age, and into the following. It plainly

expresses that the K-12 change is an exertion not select to DepEd, yet cuts over the entire scene of

Philippine instruction and work, having an extraordinary effect on every segment, while
simultaneously requiring every one of these organizations to cooperate to guarantee a smooth

progress into the new framework.

The advent of K-12 in the Philippines did not only bear advantages to the students and their

parents. The start of the new educational program also lead to some hindrances as the students

progress to senior high school. Unlike the old curriculum, senior high school students are forced

to choose their area of specification with the introduction of the different tracks and strands. This

results to students focusing only in one specialization and not being able to understand concepts

encompassed by other specializations. Another problem that arises is the financial burden that is

given to parents. Even with the voucher program mandated by the DepEd, parents especially those

who are experiencing financial struggle might be in the disadvantage side.

This study aims to describe the common hindrances faced by the senior high school

students in relation with the full implementation of the K-12 program. This study will help the

researchers in order to evaluate the current situation of the K-12 program which can be a basis for

recommendations.

B. Statement of the Problem

The study seeks to describe the common hindrances experienced by students in senior high

school based on the implementation of the K-12 program. Specifically, it seeks to answer the

following questions:

1) How can the respondents describe their perception with the full implementation of the K-

12 program?

2) What are the common hindrances faced by the respondents in entering senior high

school?
 3) How do the respondents overcome the challenges that they are facing in relation with the

K-12 program?

C. Significance of the study

The K-12 program plans to give each Filipino youth the training s/he needs to contend in

a worldwide context. The objective of the new educational plan is to give Filipino understudies

sufficient opportunity to ace abilities and ideas with the goal that they are prepared for tertiary

training when the opportunity arrives. Kindergarten was beforehand discretionary, and promoters

of the K-12 program contend that understudies who went to kindergarten are preferable arranged

for essential training over the individuals who did not. Likewise, the K-12 program

"accommodates the utilization of the 'primary language' language as the vehicle of guidance for

understudies in the fundamental and lower a very long time to encourage and speed up learning."

This marvelous intelligent guide of every single state funded school in the nation could be a helpful

apparatus in arranging an enlistment technique. It contains information on the school's financial

limit, enrolment insights, instruction markers, number of showing faculty, furniture, course books,

study halls, in addition to the water and power supply of nearly 45,000 schools across the country.

The study will be beneficial for the following group of individuals:

Students. The students will benefit from this study by telling them how they will be ready

to comprehend the expansion of two (2) years from their tutoring. Students will know how it will

give a superior nature of training to them.

Students’ Parents. This study will have the option to help the parents of the students who

are influenced by the K-12 program. This will give them a thought of what will be the points of

interest and detriments of the program, and in the event that it will enable their kids to develop

from the scholastic nature.

 Teachers. This examination will profit the educators from the school, for them to be set up

for the extra two years to the fundamental instruction. It is significant for them to know the points

of interest and impediments of the program, since they will be the one giving the information to

the youth.

Administration. This research will also benefit the school, so they will anticipate the

additional cost to the program, also the additional teachers and everything that they should be

anticipating for.

Department of Education. This research will help DepEd in evaluating the current

situation of the K-12 Program. This will help in improving the quality provided by the program to

its clientele.

Future Researchers. This study will give the future researchers the information necessary

for their future researches.

D. Scope and Limitations

This study concentrates just on the impression of the guardians' understudies influenced by

the K-12 program since it has been executed for the current year the investigation will just

concentrate on what the guardians think and how it will influence them. It will likewise concentrate

on the conditions that will place one in ideal position, and those conditions that will place one in

troublesome position.

The investigation will just get some information about K-6-4-2 and not go past inquiring

as to whether despite everything they will give their youngsters a chance to keep on contemplating

or not. Also the lifestyle of every students because some cannot afford education due to poverty

or lack of income and worse for them is the two (2) years extension in high school.