Reduction Intervention to Zesty Accomplishment for Late Comers (RIZAL) Tardiness Reduction Program with the Partnerships of Barangay Kay-Anlog and Tricycle Operators/ Drivers Association (Kay-Anlog-TO/DA)

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

The intent of this qualitative study was to examine what relevant stakeholders believe serve as significant causes of tardiness and what can be done to reduce or eliminate it. This study focuses on students of Punta National High School for the school year 2017-2018 particularly those who are residing at Southville VI, Kay-Anlog, Calamba City.

Insufficiency of transportation vehicles are often blamed by these learners every time they commit tardiness in school. This habitual tardiness greatly affects the academic performance of the students in the said school. The outcome of this undertaking would serve as a ground for crafting a project that would deal with the current predicament.

METHODS

This study made use of descriptive survey method to obtain the responses of students regarding the causes of their tardiness in school and to find out the reliability on their statement revealing that the main cause of their habitual tardiness was due to insufficient number of transportation vehicles and the unsystematic scheduling of this transportation group that impede their punctuality in school. Focus Group Discussions (FGD) were done among Members of the Tricycle Drivers Association of the Southville 6 where students are residing.

RESULTS

Findings revealed that it is not KTODA or the transportations services are the cause of students' tardiness in school but the students themselves and their parents for lacking the initiative to wake up early in the morning to prepare themselves and their children for school. Furthermore, being selective of the students in riding a vehicle (they don't want to sit in charity) hinders them to come to school on time.

DISCUSSIONS

From the significant findings drawn from the study, the following are the important recommendations: meetings with the parents should be encouraged to relay the issues and concern about the students tardiness, and strengthening the reward system of the school (perhaps of the classroom advisers) to encourage late comers to come to school early or on time.