Enhancing Parents' Involvement in the Implementation of Brigada Eskwela at Bilogo Elementary School

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

The education of the youth is one of the main priorities of the Philippine government. As it is tasked to provide free and quality education for every child, the community in return plays an important role in realizing such goal. A successful private and public partnership is therefore vital to ensure that Filipino children learn in school. This poses a great challenge to educational stakeholders. As mores and norms change, the parents' participation in the Brigada Eskwela implementation in Bilogo Elementary School minimized. Their participation rate in the program has been decreasing. This the reason why the development of the parents' participation enhancement program is prioritized.

METHODS

This is a descriptive qualitative research which aims to identify the level of parents' participation in the Brigada Eskwela implementation. The respondents of this study are the parents who are identified based on the following criteria: a) they are parents or guardians of the pupils; b) they would like to continuously support Brigada Eskwela implementation; and c) they are willing to take part in the study. The researcher used the survey method to gather data. A survey questionnaire was prepared, validated, distributed, tallied and interpreted to identify the extent of the parents' attitude towards Brigada Eskwela, determining the reason of their non-participation. An interview followed after accomplishing the survey questionnaire in order to validate and confirm the responses given by the research participants.

RESULTS

Majority of the volunteers are parents which comprise 25% of the total number of volunteers in the Brigada Eskwela 2017 in Bilogo Elementary School. Though they are the greatest number of participants, they are just 52% of the two hundred forty-eight (248) total number of parents in the school. This shows that parents do not strongly participate in the Brigada Eskwela Implementation.

DISCUSSIONS

Parents are more than willing to participate Brigada Eskwela Implementation and that if they were informed, they will support the program. Interventions for working parents who are not able to participate in the program may be done.An action plan may be developed to address the reasons of their non-participation.