Batac dad cites negative economic impact of K-12 program

By Dominic B. dela Cruz

Staff reporter

Batac City—Councilor Winet Quidang cited various factors that would impact this city’s economy negatively due to the Department of Education’s K-12 program.

In a privilege speech, Ms. Quidang said the economic impact would begin to be felt two years from now.

She stressed that she is not against the implementation of the new education program, which will put the country’s education system at par with global standards.

However, she explained that the additional two years in basic education may become an additional burden for parents.

She added that the K-12 program would also put pressure on the need to build new secondary school buildings as well as result in mass lay-off of instructors in the tertiary level.

Ms. Quidang also cited the fact that there would be no incoming college freshmen for school year 2016-17 but college enrollees is expected to double dramatically by the school year 2017-18.

She pointed out that this would negatively impact transport groups, the accommodations sector as well as the food services sector.

To find a solution for the impacted sectors, Ms. Quidang requested the Batac council members to plan for the said negative impact and to prepare programs that the local government unit can implement to mitigate the negative impact.

Batac councilor Lucky Bunye, chairperson of the committee on education, said he is willing to sit down with his colleagues to try and find a solution for this problem.

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