Honesty Store: Students' Home for Education and Development

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

Honesty is a positive attitude which connotes integrity, truthfulness, loyalty, fairness and sincerity. Honesty Store, based on the idea of the Division of Cavite's program Students' Home for Education, is a five-month intervention program which aims to develop and enhance the Core Values of the students from three sections of Luis Aguado National High School South Summit Ridge Extension (LANHS-SSRE) using school supplies as materials for selling and testing.

METHODS

This study utilized purposive sampling since the target participants are the three volunteer sections, one section from Grade 7, Grade 8 and Grade 10. Honesty Store was implemented in the respective rooms of the target participants: Grade 7 Santol, Grade 8 Zinnia, Grade 10 Gregorio. It started on November 20, 2017. School supplies/materials were utilized and sold to the pilot sections. Students bought and paid the goods on their own. Daily remittances to the canteen manager were recorded to monitor the progress of the program. Inventory was done at the end of each week. Interviews were conducted to the participants of the pilot sections and to their teachers.

RESULTS

The study found out that after the program implementation, students of LANHS-SSRE were more responsible and honest. They were able to remit the total and exact amount of the school materials that had been sold in a week to the school canteen manager. Teachers witnessed the change in behavior and characters of the participants. They saw that the program promoted self-awareness on the real essence of honesty and it challenged learners to put honesty in action.

DISCUSSIONS

Department of Education gave a directive to post the quotation "Honesty is the best policy" in every classroom so that this character will be embedded in the hearts of the Filipino youth.