The Feelingis Mutual:The Perception of Senior High Students in Taytay Senior High School in SY2019-2020of a Child-friendly and Secure Environment School

Abstract

Schools are institutions established to help the children to be useful to themselves and the nation as a whole (Oluremi, 2012). Thus, a child-friendly school ensures every child an environment that is physically safe, emotionally secure and psychologically enabling (Orkodashvili, 2013). Taytay Senior High School being transferred to its very own home at B. Pag-asa St., just this school year, advocates a child-friendly school to its learners. Hence, researchers would like to know the perception and feeling of the students, also it intends to recognize the significant correlation of a child-friendly school and level of security measure in the school. The researchers used a descriptive correlational research method. The respondents consist of 100 students in ABM Strand, stratified random sampling was used. A rating scale type of survey questionnaire with a checklist for the profile of the respondents was adapted from the Child-FriendlySchool checklist of DepEd with minimal modification for easier understanding of the respondents. Respondents were divided into two groups, which is gender for stratified random sampling, 50 percent male and 50 percent female. After data were collected, both male and female gave the highest average on categories such as protectiveness, followed by safety, cleanliness and healthiness as the lowest average rated. Significantly, male and female both answered that there is a moderate positive correlation between the Level of Child-FriendlySchool and Level of Security Measure in Taytay Senior High School. It means, that school with a high level of security are considered as a child-friendly school. In other words, one of the characteristics of child-friendly school is having a high level of security. The higher the level of security is, the greater the level of child-friendly school is. In summary, answers of male and female respondents revealed a mutual response, TSHS is a child-friendly school that being in school made them feel being in a secured environment. To make it sustainable, the school should continually review and update changes in personnel, local conditions, advocacy and emergency plans that extend towards the community to gain further support and foster community participation and involvement. One important suggestion that will make them feel more sethe cure is, a school might construct a gate and fences around the school. Having a gate in the school prevent and control the entry or exit of individuals.