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DepEd Quezon
Finally, in a memorandum released last Feb. 9, DepEd MEMORANDUM No. 25, s. 2012, the department announces the binding institutionalization of kindergarten into the Basic Education System by virtue of the passing of the Kindergarten Act or the Republic Act 10157, AN ACT INSTITUTIONALIZING THE KINDERGARTEN EDUCATION INTO THE BASIC EDUCATION SYSTEM AND APPROPRIATING FUNDS THEREFOR, dated January 201, 2012.
The act aptly describes in Section 2. Declaration of Policy that it is consonance with the Millennium Development Goals on achieving Education for All (EFA) by the year 2015. It will apply to elementary school system being the first stage of compulsory and mandatory formal education. Thus, kindergarten will now be an integral part of the basic education system of the country.
Further, the new law recognizes the significance of kindergarten education to to the academic and technical development of the Filipino child for it is the period when the young mind's absorptive capacity for learning is at its sharpest.
With this law, the government through the department of education in partnership with other agency could now require all children age five be enrolled in kindergarten classes just like in grade one.
Being now compulsory and fully institutionalized part of the elementary learning years, enrollment increase shall be expected in the coming years. And this should be anticipated by all schools so as not be an additional contributing factor to classroom shortage particularly in cities and highly urbanized areas experiencing high and alarming rates of migration.
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