The K to 12 Program was introduced in the Philippines with the aim of providing sufficient time to master concepts and skils, prepare graduates for higher education produce lifelong namen, and prepare students for middle level skills development, entrepreneurship, and employment (Republic of the Philippines Official Gazette). Hence, the program added two years of Senior High School (SHS). The courses that can be learned from Set include accounting, welding machinist work agriculture, music, medical technology, and culinary and hospity work, Although the intention of adding 55 is commendable, some critics claim that there is still a mismatch between our schooling system and working system. As regards the implementation of SHS, some people are concerned about the lack of learning materials provided to the schools. For example, during the school year 2013-2014 learning material for cow school in Tondo arrived during the last two quarts of the school year. The lack of sufficient facilities, such as classrooms, chairs, and computer laboratories, is also a problem, Motor, mone students requirir more teachers, but there seem to be a lack of teachers as well Colleges and univerúties ase assert that they will be losing revenues with the implementation of SHS since there will be anoles for the first year in 2016 Despite these observations, Depled is optimistic that these shortages and problems will be overcome as they claim that these are being addressed. Meanwhile, the Coordinating Council of Private Educational Associations (COCOPE) lauds Depto's implementation of the to 12 Program. According to its chairman, additional twe years of education should not be seen as a burden
Part 1: Answer the following questions 1. What do you think is the stand of the author? Is he/she for gast the implementation of SH57 Justify your answer
2. What is the central claim of the test? 3. Who do you think is the target reader of the text? Why?
Do you think there is sufficient and valid evidence against and for SHS? Jutify your answer
Based on your own experience, should SHS continue to be implemented?