During the DepEd-CEAP Mindanao Summit organized by CEAP’s National Basic Education Commission (NBEC) and co-hosted by Ateneo de Davao University on 17-18 February, the intention was to appreciate progress attained in the implementation of the K-12 educational reform and to understand the requirements of the Anti-Bullying Act of 2013 (RA 10627) for the Mindanao schools.
“And because the designers are all college graduates with PhD’s from the best of higher educational intentions, but without the experience of training students in handling a lathe or a welding machine, we now have a policy which has effectively shut out meaningful skills development in favor of pre-college preparation. The K-12 program has been reduced thereby to pre-college preparation whose “core curriculum,” according to Mr. Elvin Uy, will prepare the student for college according to the College Readiness Standards of the CHED.”
Talking from experience,In 1964 when I was senior year HS at Don Bosco-Makati, we were already given the preparatory core curriculum for college by giving us the option to select arts & science subjects in lieu of the trade skills and technical workshop. If you belong to the upper 20% academic achievements you can qualify for pre-college subjects otherwise you can take up specializatioon skills on electronics, radio & TV and automative or even print media and publishing. The students are classfied and group by Section, that is, Section A & B for higher academic subjects and the other sections according to your skills training preference. So, I dont know why they (CHED) have not or perhaps ignore the Don Bosco curriculum system. I think other Asian preparatory schools like Singapore is adopting this system.