In the Middle-of-the-Road (Blog 4.4)

                People say that high school life is the best part of every body’s life. They say that once you step in college, you will never ever forget your best memories in high school. Those first love, heart break, best friends, teachers, enemies and even the people surrounding you. Well maybe that’s true.

                After three years of studying, I’m half-way out the door in our school. Yes, half since I need to study three more years in high school because K-12 curriculum says so. But the question is, ”Why do I need to continue studying in our school?”

                This question is really hard to answer, seriously. But as I was longing for the answers, I realized so many things. First of all, I need to continue this challenge because I started this. I was the one who chose to be here in this school. Second, this school already imparted a lot of things in me as an individual. This school made me realize that I can do the things which I thought impossible for me to do. This school made me feel that I have a second family.

                I’m accepting the fact that studying isn’t easy. As a student of Cavite National Science High School, life hasn’t been easy to me. But I cannot deny to myself that I found my happiness there. I found friends who are truly great and very reliable in everything. I met some cool teachers who are like just our “barkada” also. I like how most of them teach like we’re just hanging out. And I also cannot deny that without them, I don’t think that the knowledge inside my head wouldn’t be the same.

                But the fact that our batch is the first one to experience the K-12 curriculum, I don’t think so that this curriculum really helped me in shaping me as an individual. Maybe the lessons I can get from the experiences that I am experiencing inside the school are the real effective way on how I can find myself but not really in academic way. Honestly speaking, I do prefer the curriculum before. Well maybe, K-12 can help the youths but not in our batch. We sometimes feel that people are just using us to know if the lessons/modules that they are giving are effective tool for the student to learn. And another thing is, every school year, we are receiving modules when it is already in last quarter. It is too hard for us to produce our own copy since we do have some problems financially. Three years has passed, same thing has just happened.

                I’m still hoping for big changes.