Teachers' Deliverance of Child Protection Policies: A Scheme on the Upgrading of Academic Performance of Grade Vi-Pupils in Suba Elementary School

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

World legal luminaries conceived that schools are the only visible institutions in protecting grade school children from all forms of abuses that would gravely threaten and endanger the children's normal development.

METHODS

This action research is descriptive in design. Purposive sampling technique was used. Five -likert scale checklist inquiries was administered to 17 teachers/personnel and 30 grade 6 pupils in the said school. Statistical computations by means of mean, standard deviation, t -test formula and Pearson r formulas were used.

RESULTS

Teachers were "effective" to resolute actions on the effective deliverance of their child protection policies in terms of capacity building, disciplinary proceeding, procedural recording, and appropriate coordinating in the said public elementary school. The level of classroom performance of grade VI -pupils in English was "satisfactory" in terms of written test, "often" in group activities and attendance, and "excellent" in terms of quarterly test as reinforced by the effectiveness of child protection policies, and the more extensive are the resolute actions made by school heads and teachers for effective deliverance of child protection policies the higher are the academic performance of Grade VI pupils in the said public school in Majayjay, Laguna.

DISCUSSIONS

There have been limitations on the knowledge regarding the legal procedures undertaken by school heads and teachers in the implementation of the child protection policies in public elementary school in Majayjay, Laguna for simple reason that they are non-lawyers, they strived their best to minimize abuses victimizing grade schoolchildren through their resolute actions, and therefore the said shortcomings can be covered up by means of enhancement seminar and workshop.