CHILD PROTECTION POLICY

Child Protection School Policy

OBJECTIVE

The Department of Education and the Gonzaga South Central School in particular promotes a zero- tolerance policy for any act of child abuse, exploitation, violence, discrimination, bullying and other forms of abuse.

Rules and Regulations

A. DO’S for Teachers

1. Be compassionate and friendly to pupils, give them love and affection, advice and counsel, companionship and understanding.

2. Be considerate of pupils’ individual differences (status in life, physical, psychological, economical and other profile).

3. Correct pupils’ misbehavior individually and privately. Enhance, protect, preserve and maintain their physical and mental health at all times;

4. Keep pupils safe inside the classroom during instructional time and keep them in their company and support, educate and instruct them by right precept and good example. Use human or soft pointer when emphasizing ideas or lessons;

5. Inculcate the value of respect and obedience. Practice Smile principles;

6 .Impose love, compassion and merit for children’s training and discipline enhancement.

7. Furnish pupils with good and wholesome educational materials, supervise their activities, recreation and association with others, protect them from bad company and prevent them from acquiring habits, detrimental to their health, studies and morals;

8. Advocate gender sensitivity. Equal respect to both gender. Call pupils by name.

9. Maintain safe, orderly and conducive learning environment. Ensure the safety of pupils.

10. Advocate and practice positive and non-violent discipline of children;

B. DON’TS for Teachers

1. Don’t humiliate pupils in front of other pupils or classmates.

2. Don’t deduct or give threat of deduction from grade or merit from pupils as a form of punishment.

3. Don’t discriminate pupils and compare from one another.

4. Don’t scold pupils in public. Avoid uttering unpleasant words to pupils.

5. Don’t send pupils for an errand during instructional time.

6. Avoid using stick or hard pointers while teaching to avoid accident.

7. Corporal punishment shall not be imposed on any child in school for the purpose of discipline, training or control;

8. Don’t give brand name to pupils.

9. Don’t touch private/ sensitive body parts of the pupil.

10. Don’t let pupils to litter, destroy and vandal school properties.

11. Don’t assign pupils to perform task hazardous to their physical properties.

12. Don’t inflict a wrong upon the person, honor or property of the pupils or on his/ her family.

13. Avoid stalking or constantly following or pursuing a person in his/ her daily activities with unwanted and obsessive attention;

14. Don’t demand or require sexual or monetary favors, or exacting money or property, from a pupil or student;

15. Don’t use children for someone else’s advantage, gratification or profit resulting in an unjust, cruel and harmful treatment of the child.

16. Don’t use the pupils in work or other activities for the benefit of others;

17. Don’t force a child to perform physically painful or damaging acts such as, but not limited to, holding a weight or weights for an extended period and kneeling on stones, salt, pebbles or other objects

18. Don’t deprive a child’s physical needs as a form of punishment;

19. Don’t inflict verbal abuse or assaults, including intimidation or threat of bodily harm, swearing or cursing, ridiculing or denigrating the child;

20. Don’t force the child to wear a sign, to undress or disrobe, or to put on anything that will make a child look or feel foolish which belittles or humiliates the him in front of others;

21. Don’t blow, beat, kick, hit, slap, or lash of any part of a child’s body with or without the use of an instrument such as but not limited to a cane, broom, stick, whip or belt;

22. Don’t confiscate personal property of pupils except when such pieces of property pose a danger to the child or to others;

C.DO’s for Pupils

1. Comply with the school child protection policy;

2. Conduct themselves in accordance with their levels of development, maturity, and demonstrate capabilities, with a proper regard for the rights and welfare of other persons;

3. Respect another person’s rights regardless of opinion, status, gender, ethnicity, religion as well as everyone’s moral and physical integrity;

4. Observe the Code of Conduct for pupils and learners;

5. Use personal belongings properly.Take only what is yours;

6. Protect (oneself) private parts from exposure to avoid sexual harassment

7. Observe good manners and right conduct all the time;

8. Respect and be obedient to teachers and elders.

9. Practice and demonstrate the core values of being MakaDiyos, MakaTao, MakaBansa and MakaKalikasan;

D.DONT’s for Pupils

1. Don’t engage in discrimination, or leading a group of pupils to discriminate another, with reference to one’s physical appearance, weaknesses and status of any sort;

2. Refrain from doing any act that is inappropriate or sexually provocative;

3. Avoid participating in behavior of other pupils that is illegal, unsafe or abusive;

4. Refrain from marking or damaging school property, including books in any way.

5. Don’t tease each other to avoid trouble and accident

6. Avoid using other’s personal belongings;

7. Don’t show / touch sensitive parts of one’s body or classmates / schoolmates

8. Don’t inflict physical injury / violence or verbal abuse to classmates / schoolmates and teachers.

9. Don’t say bad words or do untoward acts to classmates, teachers, teachers and elders.

10. Don’t inflict verbal abuse or assaults, including intimidation or threat of bodily harm, swearing or cursing, ridiculing or belittling schoolmates / classmates;

11. Don’t force schoolmates/ classmates to wear a sign, to undress or disrobe, or to put on anything that will make a child look or feel foolish which belittles or humiliates the child in front of others

12. Don’t blow, beat, kick, hit, slap, or lash of any part of a schoolmates / classmates’ body with or without the use of an instrument such as but not limited to a cane, broom, stick, whip or belt;

13. Don’t strike a schoolmate/ classmate’ face or head, such being declared as a “ no contact zone “;

D. DO’s for School Head

1. That the school shall be conducived to learning and children shall have the right to education free from fear;

2. All children shall be protected from all forms of abuse and bullying to develop self – esteem and self- confidence;

3. Shall advocate a positive and non – violent mode of disciplining children to foster self – discipline and to improve self – esteem;

4. School Head shall take steps to prevent bullying and ensure that the appropriate interventions, counseling and other services, are provided for the victims of abuse, violence, exploitation, discrimination and bullying;

5. Ensure that pupils or learners shall respect the rights of others and refrain from committing acts of bullying and peer violence;

6. Parents shall be actively involved in all school activities or events that raise awareness on children’s rights, positive discipline and the prevention of bullying;

7. Ensure that all pupils, learners, teachers, parents, guardians or custodians and visitors and guest are made aware of the Child Protection Policy;

8. Conduct disciplinary proceedings in cases of offenses committed by pupils, students or learners;

9. Ensure that the participatory and other rights of children are respected and upheld in all matters and procedures affecting their welfare;

10. Establish a functional Child Protection Committee (CFC) which is composed of the following members:

Chairperson School Head / Administrator

Vice- Chairperson Guidance Counselor / Teacher

Teachers’ Representative As designated by the Faculty Club

Parents’ Representative As designated by the PTA

Pupils’ Representative As designated by the Supreme Pupil Government

Community Representative As designated by the Punong Barangay, preferably a Member of the Barangay Council for the Protection of Children (BCPC)

E.DO’s for Parents

1. Parents shall be actively involved in all school activities or events that raise awareness on children’s rights, positive discipline and the prevention of bullying;

2. Keep children safe inside their homes and keep them in their company and support , educate and instruct them by right precept and good example. Use human or soft pointer when emphasizing ideas or lessons;

3. Inculcate the value of respect and obedience. Practice Smile Principles;

4. Impose love, compassion and merit by children’s training and discipline enhancement.

5. Furnish children with good and wholesome educational materials, supervise their activities, recreation and association with others, protect them from bad company and prevent them from acquiring habits detrimental to their health, studies and morals.

F.DON’Ts for Parents

1. Don’t deprive a child’s physical needs as a form of punishment;

2 .Don’t tie up a child, or deliberately expose to fire, ice, water, smoke, sunlight, rain, pepper, alcohol or forcing the child to swallow substances, dangerous chemicals and other materials that can cause discomfort or threaten the child’s health, safety and sense of security such as but not limited to bleach or insecticides, excrement or urine;

3. Don’t inflict verbal abuse or assaults, including intimidation or threat of bodily harm, swearing or cursing, ridiculing or denigrating the child;

4. Don’t force the child to wear a sign, to undress or disrobe, or to put on anything that will make the child look or feel foolish which belittles or humiliates the child in front of others;

5. Don’t blow, beat, kick, hit, slap, or lash of any part of a child’s body with or without the use of an instrument such as but not limited to a cane, broom, stick, whip or belt;

6. Don’t strike a child’s face or head such being declared as a “ no contact zone “;

7. Don’t pull hair, shake, twist joints, cut or pierce skin, drag, push or throw of a child;

8. Don’t confine, imprison or deprive the liberty of a child.