Below average

IT CAME as no surprise to me that Filipino students ranked poor in the study made by the World Population Review where the Philippines ranked 111 and the rest of Asia occupied the top ranks like Japan and South Korea.

It labelled the students as below average mainly in academics specifically in mathematics and science.

Where lies the problem? We focused on the new basic education curriculum hoping that our K-12 scheme would vastly improve their performance. The K-12 curriculum took a heavy toll on the students’financial standing and physical health.

It would seem, therefore, that this innovation on our education curriculum did not serve the purpose at all. On the contrary, it may have even backwarded our learning proficiency.

It was envisioned that Grades 11 and 12 students would have the capability to join our workforce once they finished the requirements but this did not happen. Employers frowned on the lack of experience of the senior high graduates and recommended more training and immersion before hiring them.

There should be concerted efforts to overhaul our educational system to cope up with the standards required for students to excel otherwise we will remain at the bottom of the list of achievers.

Previously, we have been ranked near the bottom in the international assessment review involving reading comprehension and our mastery of the English language, our medium of instruction.

Where have we improved, if at all, in this aspect?

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Successful examinees. Three honor graduates from Mabalacat City College have passed the Licensure Examination for Teachers (LET) given last March 2023: my daughter Kristine Ann, Jervis M. Capinding and Mary Allyson Dayrit. Congratulations!