K-12: Additional Quality Education or Additional Suffering

Is the K-12 model good for the Philippine Education system?
This program will require all incoming students to enroll into two
more years of basic education. Thus, the K+12 System will basically
include the Universal kindergarten, 6 years of elementary, 4 years of
junior high school with an additional 2 years for senior high school.
Kindergarten and 12 years of quality basic education is a right of
every Filipino, therefore they must be and will be provided by government
and will be free. Those who go through the 12 years cycle will get an
elementary diploma (6 years), a junior high school diploma (4 years), and
a senior high school diploma (2 years). A full 12 years of basic education
will eventually be required for entry into tertiary level education (entering
freshmen by SY 2018-2019 or seven years from now).
DepEd says that a K-12 program will improve the chances for youth
employment as it is aimed to improve technical-vocational skills through
focusing on arts, aquaculture and agriculture, among others. The K-12, it
further states, will ensure that students graduating at the age of 18 will
have jobs, thus making them “employable” even without a college degree.
In the other hand, K-12 is not good for the poor Filipinos out there because
they have no enough money to support their children in schooling like the
Filipinos live in squatter’s area. So, K-12 is good for the Filipinos that have
enough money to support their children but wasn’t good for the other Filipinos
that are poor.