Level of Implementation of the Child Protection Policy Program and Problems Encountered in Maltana National High School

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

Every child has the right to be protected, not just in their homes but most especially in the places where they will spend a lot of time in. School is one of the public places children attend to and considered as an essential social institution. Although the school is their second home, the children's safety there is not one hundred percent guaranteed. Children will not only experience physical and emotional violence in their homes but also in their schools. They could be hurt by their classmates, schoolmates, and even teachers using various types of violence. The child protection policy program is a big help in the school to help teachers and students be aware of their actions and behavior, that teachers may be doing something that would hurt their students whether physical or emotional or anything that is against the law.

METHODS

This study used the descriptive correlative research design. Respondents were determined using Slovin’s Formula. A survey questionnaire was used as an instrument to gather data from the respondents. Pearson R Correlation, weighted mean, and percentage were the statistical tools used to answer the problem.

RESULTS

Most of the respondents answered that they are aware of the said program and strongly agreed that the child protection policy program was implemented in school because of the conduct of seminars and lectures that promote child protection to students. Although most students have known about it. Some of the respondents only know partially about the program, and so they have perceived that the school lacks time and preparation to make the students fully aware about the child protection policy program, and one of the reasons was because of the curricular activities piling up to be done by the school.

DISCUSSIONS

The results raise awareness to the administrator of the school because it is their role to make the students know about their rights and responsibilities that the students hold in the school. Also, the teachers must be fully informed of the said program in order to implement it in the school and most especially, in their homerooms. In order to make all of the students knowledgeable of this program, the researchers suggest that the school should conduct symposiums regularly so that the program will be inculcated in the minds of the students.