School Safety: Perspectives of Grade School and High School Students

1. School Safety: Perspectives of Grade School and High School Students of a Private Catholic School in Pasay

2. INTRODUCTION • School safety affects school climate. • There are growing concerns to ensure student safety • because of increasing violence in school • School’s mission is to enhance the school environment conducive to learning and growth

3. STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM: • This study is aimed at assessing the school safety for prevention of violence. Specifically, it sought to answer the following problems: 1. To what extent do students feel safe? • In school? • On the way to and from school? • In their neighborhood?

4. STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM: 2. To what extent do students experience bullying in school: • Physically bullied by other students? • Verbally bullied by other students? • Socially bullied by other students? • Electronically bullied by other students?

5. STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM: 3.To what extent do the students witnessed bullying of their school mates inside the school? 4.What places inside the school do students consider as most at risk for bullying?

6. STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM: 5.What actions do students undertake whenever: • they experience bullying in the school? • they witness bullying in the school? 6.To what extent do teachers assist the bullied as perceived by the students?

7. METHODOLOGY • Descriptive Survey • Random Sampling • Statistical Methods (Frequency Distribution, Mean Percentage Weighted Mean) • Respondents

8. INSTRUMENT USED • Survey adopted from www.reportbullying.com/parenting-bullying-survey.htm. It is a student self-report questionnaire created to measure general school campus climate and personal safety-related experiences

9. CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK School Climate School Safety School Rules Support Students’ Social Desirability and Skills Safe Environment Students’ Perception

10. RESULTS & FINDINGSResearch Problem #1: To what extent do students feel safe? Table 1 Students’ Perception of School Safety

11. Analysis • Majority of the students (64%) feel that they are safe in school and in their neighborhood. • Nearly 60% of the students feel safe across all areas: in school, on the way to school and in their neighborhood. • Only one percent of the participants categorically denied that the inside campus is safe for them.

12. RESULTS & FINDINGSResearch Problem # 2 2. To what extent do students experience bullying in school: • Physically bullied by other students? • Verbally bullied by other students? • Socially bullied by other students? • Electronically bullied by other students?

13. Table 2 Kinds of Bullying Experienced by the students & Its Frequency of Occurrence

14. Analysis • More than half of the respondents have NEVER been bullied socially, electronically • Physical and verbal bullying are the most common types of bullying experienced by students but only ONCE

15. RESULTS & FINDINGSResearch Problem # 3 • To what extent do the students witnessed bullying of their school mates inside the school?

16. Table 3Percentage of Students who have seen or witnessed Bullying

17. Analysis • Majority of both GS and HS students have already witnessed /seen bullying (86%) and only 13% have not yet catched a glimpse of it

18. RESULTS & FINDINGSResearch Problem # 4 • What places do students consider as most at risk for bullying?

19. Table 4. Identified School Places where there is at risk of bullying

20. RESULTS & FINDINGSResearch Problem # 5 • What actions do students undertake whenever: • they experience bullying in the school? • they witness bullying in the school?

21. Table 5a Actions that Students Undertake

22. Table 5b Percentage of Students’ Reasons who did not do anything the time they witnessed Bullying

23. RESULTS & FINDINGSResearch Problem # 6 • To what extent do teachers assist the bullied as perceived by the students?

24. Table 6 Support of Teachers to Students who experience bullying

25. Table 7. Frequency of Communication to Parents by the School Personnel towards Bullying Do school personnel contact parent if you..?

26. Table 8Students’ Perception of School rules related to conduct and Behavior are fairly Reinforced

27. CONCLUSIONS 1 . Students’ feelings of school climate is positive. Results revealed that there were 64% believe that they are safe in school and in neighborhood

28. CONCLUSIONS • “Physical and Verbal bullying” is commonly experienced by GS and HS students but only ONCE • Generally students perceived low potential of school danger or at risk in any of the school areas

29. CONCLUSIONS • Seventy Eight percent (78%)of the respondents are willing to get involved (e.g. to report highly sensitive information like bullying) is the social desirability measure or the indicator of student’s possible behavior from a private Catholic school

30. RECOMMENDATIONS • Continue to integrate social competence in the group guidance or homeroom activities in all levels • Ensure that every student feels connected to at least one responsible and caring adult as one of the most important steps that educators can take to promote safe schools.

31. RECOMMENDATIONS • For the administrators to further study how to transform school from a community of passive bystanders (who do nothing because they don’t want to get involve) to a community of “upstanders” who responds responsibly to problems.