Parents Participation During Ptca Meetings at Calatagan National High School: An an alysis

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

As stated in the Department of Education Mission, the department should protect and promote the right of every Filipino to quality, equitable, culture-based, and complete basic education where:

Family, community, and other stakeholders are actively engaged and share responsibility for developing life-long learners.

However, in Calatagan National High School, the percentage of Parents participation through PTCA attendance has an average of 45-50% from the school target of 95-100 %. Based on the data, the mandate of Department of Education should be address in order to have a share responsibility and therefore creating life-long learners. Thus, the time has come to put a weight to emphasizing how these Parents and Teacher's effort can be maximized to effect positive change to the school environment.

METHODS

The study utilized the descriptive method of research. A researcher-made interview questionnaire was used as the main data-gathering instrument. The respondents of the study were 1500 Parents/Guardians determined using purposive random sampling. The researchers accumulated and consolidated the responses of the participants. The statistical tools used were mean, percentage and rank.

RESULTS

The study revealed that the main reasons why there was a low level of Parents participation/Involvement during PTCA Meetings are as follows: Financial Matter, Information Dissemination, Parent's Busy Schedule, and Parents Perception for PTA meetings, and Distance from the School. The researchers came up with a proposed management system towards enhancing Parent's participation.

DISCUSSIONS

The main problem nowadays as far as school management is concerned is the low parent's participation during the PTCA meetings in every Grading Period. In Calatagan National High School there are just 50 % of parent's involvement from Grade 7 to grade 10 based on the First and Second Grading Period of PTCA Conference. Based on this problem, the researcher utilized different strategies in enhancing the parent's participation such as wide information dissemination through a personal letter to the parents, giving certificates as tokens for the parents, and a raffle program for all the parents who attended the PTCA meetings. These parents’ involvements are important to the school to help us finding remedies in school concern and problems which in turn will have a great impact on the performance of students and teachers.