Reinforcing the Parents' Participation and Attendance in the School Based Feeding Program at Marcos Espejo Elementary School

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

School Based Feeding Program is one of the well-managed program of the Department of Education that should be implemented in each school as stipulated in Department of Education Order No. 51, s. 2016. Involvement of parents in the program is one of the most important and contributing factors for the success of the SBFP. In this study, we discovered the level of parents' participation in SBFP and the problems encountered in terms of parents' participation and attendance.

METHODS

Different methods design was used. We used two data gathering procedures namely, focus group discussion and retrospective interview. Also, the following data gathering tools namely; attendance of parents and questionnaire were used to attain the objectives of this study through qualitative analysis.

RESULTS

Many parents who participated on the conducted focus group discussion and interview revealed the common reasons for non-participation and attendance in School-Based Feeding Program. Most of the parent's problem fell on babysitting. Second in rank is their work. Conflict schedule between their pre-scheduled activities rank 3. Rank 4 is their knowledge in cooking and those who were not concerned rank 5.

DISCUSSIONS

The outcomes show the need for strong participation and involvement of parents in the SBFP implementation. Different programs must be implemented to entice and reinforce participation among parents to make SBFP a successful one.