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Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION Background of the study Today’s school era, one of the problems of students in the K-12 curriculum are the numerous paper works, heavy books, lots of school projects and include also other school materials that are needed in a daily basis. That is one of the problems why students experiencing back pains associated with the bombardments of projects and books that are very heavy to carry and the lack of interest to go to school. Lockers can be the possible solution to this dilemma and students can benefit from it. To start the discussion, here is a little background about lockers. Lockers are usually seen on schools, offices and the gym. They are utilized as an extra storage and safe keeper of personal belongings. Besides these functions, lockers have other important roles on the aforementioned facilities.

Students bring a lot of things to school to use for different classes. The supplies normally placed in a school locker are books, papers, personal hygiene items and jackets to name a few. It brings a lot of convenience to students as it allows them to carry only the things needed for a certain class. They can always just access the locker in between classes. Lockers also serve as the only personal space of students in schools so they have their storage decorated with pictures or anything that inspires them. Spinal problems and back pain caused by carrying large backpacks can be avoided by having students use lockers. Providing a place to store things promotes cleanliness in school grounds. It goes without saying that having a personal storage solution makes things easier on your students. By providing so, having lockers can make a student more responsible in his/her belongings 1

and not only will they enjoy the convenience of managing their school supplies from a secure locker, but they’ll also save themselves from backaches. Studies have shown that children who carry heavy books around on their backs all day have a better chance of developing scoliosis and back issues.

Statement of the problem The study seeks to answer about the problem of students regarding to Locker proposal in each active building used by senior high school students of University of the East Caloocan: 1) Students are being hassled by large books, paper works, and other school materials that may affect their interest to go to school. 2) Projects that are meticulous in nature are the ones who are very cautious when it comes to handling it with so much care so an extra storage is a need to address the situation. 3) Cases of theft in book shelters and other school equipment can be very alerting so books that are expensive might be at risk.

Significance of the study The one who will be benefitting the study will be the students in senior high school department because they are the main components of this study. Teachers can also be one of the beneficiaries in this study because of the extra storage that it might give. Parents 2

playing a huge role in every student will also benefit in the implementation of school lockers because it will give them peace of mind when it comes to their child’s valuable things. The sole benefit of the study is to ease the problem of every students in senior high school to become more comfortable in carrying their school items. It will also benefit them in having extra storage and the security that they are dreaming of. The main beneficiaries will be the students and also the school itself because the “help me, help you” will be established here in this study in terms of easing the problem of students in terms of easing the problem of students in storage capacity and for the school also to benefit in the extra investment for generating more profit for possible school rehabilitation of other school facilities. Secondary beneficiaries are the teachers and parents. Teachers can also be one of the beneficiaries in a way that if this study will succeed in the future, the expansion of the ideas for future development might include teachers in benefitting school lockers for having extra storage. As for the parents, this will give them peace of mind for valuable and expensive things of their child whenever they will be going to school especially for those students who are living in distant locations. To the Researchers, this study will also benefit them to be more aware that it is more convenient to study if they are carrying less things in their bag. It will also make them more responsible in carrying out their things and for them to boost their creativity in taking care of their own lockers.

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For the future researchers, if this study will succeed in the future, possible implementation of other ideas pertaining to the expansion of the school lockers can benefit other possible beneficiaries that are not associated with this study. It will also give them better insight if there are some flaws in this study for them to correct the mistakes of this locker proposal.

Scope and delimitation This study will solely focus on the implementation of school lockers to help students to become more convenient in their way to school. Respondents will be carefully chosen and gathered by the use of survey questionnaire and will focus on all senior high school students. The researchers chose to have all senior high school students to take part on this study for the purpose of giving the best output regarding on the implementation of school lockers particularly for those senior high school students who badly need it. The researchers aim to prevent discouragement of the students to bring books by easing their workplace in providing school lockers as a means of extra storage. The study will be delimited only to the implementation of lockers for the beneficiary of every senior high school students and not other variables that have nothing to do with the study. It is also delimited to all senior high school students and not the preceding levels because the intensity level of stress brought by other factors such as heavy books that will lead to discouragement of senior high school students to bring their books everyday is

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much higher than its predecessor. Perspectives and perceptions are also delimited only to senior high school students.

Chapter 2 FRAMEWORK OF THE STUDY Review of related literatures Local literature

DepEd urged to implement measure to limit weight of school bags School lockers for students are very essential to be implemented inside a school. Not only for its security purposes, but also the extra storage that it may give to help students to store their books, school projects, other school materials, valuable items, and can be for spare of shoes. A concerned citizen urged about the implementation of lockers to limit the weight of school bags cause of heavy loads of books. A representative from a distant city has expressed concern over the health of school children, especially those enrolled in private schools, amid reports that scores of them went back to classes last week, burdened with school bags weighing about half as much as they do. Lazatin introduced in the 14th Congress House Bill 6644, An Act Limiting the Amount of Bags Carried by Children in School and Implementing Measures to Protect School Children’s Health from the Adverse Effects of Heavy School Bags.

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“The bill was not passed but he appealed to school authorities nationwide to consider implementing it anyway. Lazatin cited reports of recent random weighing showing that pupils bring school bags that weigh as much as 50 percent or even more of their body weight. The bags are filled with textbooks, workbooks and notebooks. This is not to include the jug of water and lunch box, he noted. He also said “I think this aberration has been going on nationwide for years now, as indicated by the expensive and huge school bags being sold at supermarkets and department stores. Most of them are fitted with wheels, but to be sure, the kids have to lift these bags at one time or another on their way to and from their classes every day,” he said. Lazatin cited medical experts who have recommended that schools should limit the weight of bags to less than 15 percent of the students body weight.” (Cervantes, 2010)

Foreign Literature Importance of Lockers For Students & Teachers in University

The study shows the importance of lockers for students and for the teachers to benefit them. “The modern schools are a complex institution; between schooling, costing, staff management, keeping the teachers, parents, and, ultimately, students happy, by fulfilling their little requirement. One such necessity that commonly arises is the storing facility.” “School storage lockers are useful and are essential for any school, college or university. They support in keeping your life and work composed as well as serves as an excellent space to dump things off on the go. If you have decided to purchase a storage unit for your

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school, make sure to maintain the standard and consistency. For instance, you would not want to buy half of your school lockers made of wood and rest half of plastic. Having a uniformity will make your school look refined and like you mean business. Also, make sure to purchase similar size lockers throughout the room. It would be biased on students for some of them to have large lockers, and some have small ones. Whatever school lockers you do decide on your students will be beneficial as they would have some space to store their stuff.” (Anonymous, 2016)

The Advantages of Lockers in Schools There are many advantages of having lockers in schools. Aside from their surface usages, like storing books, clothing and other possessions, they introduce students to a number of features that are less apparent. Learning how to properly use a locker, including the conditions or circumstances that surround its usage, actually mirror a variety of situations that students will encounter in the future. According to Spinello, “Lockers provide students with a space of their own. They’re held accountable for its contents and it’s their job to care for and maintain that space. Memorizing locker combinations help students gain a sense of responsibility; if they want to get what they need, the y’re required to know the combination and be able to open it. This serves as practice for other things they’ll have to preserve and be able to access later in life (i.e., safety deposit boxes, pin numbers and alarm codes).” As for the effect for every indi vidual,

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“Another advantage of lockers is how they teach students to respect other people’s property. A student’s locker tends to contain things that are valuable to them and that they need, like pictures, books, homework and other belongings. A locker is supposed to be a safe place for students to store items without having to worry that they’ll be stolen or ruined. Given that students want to be confident that their locker’s possessions are protected, odds are they’ll show consideration for their fellow student’s lockers.” (Spinello, 2018). Lastly, the benefits of having lockers for students are, “A major advantage of lockers is the social environment that surrounds them. Lockers are where a lot of public interaction takes place. This teaches students about social responsibility and etiquette. Regardless of whether or not they are friendly with the students who have lockers next to them, they need to respect them. In school (work and other social settings), you may not know everyone around you or even like t hem. However, lockers present students with a chance to converse with different types of people outside a specific peer group and form new relationships.” (Spinello, 2018)

School lockers prevent pupils developing back problems

Associated with the possible back injury that a student might suffer due to heavy backpacks, Mary, a concerned journalist published an article regarding implementation of school lockers may prevent students on developing back problems such as scoliosis and 8

the likes. “Just like all organizations, health and safety is increasingly important to school sand is becoming one of the biggest topics for the education sector. Indeed, all educational establishments are responsible for student’s health and safety during their time on the premises. Many schools have focused on health & safety within the context of the school buildings and surroundings, forgetting the importance of what in business might be termed manual handling. In essence, the school and national curriculum force the pupils to need a number of heavy items to be carried around – which without secure and convenient school lockers place the pupils at risk of damaging their physical wellbeing. With technology advancing, students are increasingly bringing laptops/tablets to school which can be great for both teachers and the pupils themselves, yet heavy and bulky to carry around. Add a packed lunch, bottled water, some text books and maybe a PE kit and the once light rucksack can easily top up to a mighty 2 stone (12.7KG)” (Mary, 2013) She also added, “Students are carrying up to a quarter of their body weight around all day long, which would never be allowed adult (2), so why should students be allowed to be carry all this through the whole day at school, moving from one classroom to another? Providing school lockers to students can help students lose 2 stones off their shoulders throughout the whole day at school, students can easily pick up the necessary items during lesson change and store their heavy and bulky item such as PE kit (which is normally just needed for 1 hour of the day), and valuable item such as laptop and mobile phone in a safe and security place, also giving the parents a peace of mind too.” (Mary, 2013)

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The Back Pain of Back to School A rheumatologist named Mark Borigini, M.D., has conducted a study about back pains that may develop in a young age that might carry on as the child grows older. He made a research regarding to the alarming back injury that may develop to a student who always wore his/her bag full of heavy books. According to Borigini, “The school locker was an island of self-expression amidst the conformity of pep rallies and society’s expectations of new adolescence. It might be wall-papered with troubling photos of Iggy Pop, or the latest work of Flavia. The school locker was the student, no matter how the student appeared to the school. But something happened. Schools and parents began wondering what really was behind that glorified locked shoebox: A weapon to take down an airplane? Or a magazine encouraging the student to take down his or her pants? Suddenly one autumn, the school locker was abolished. The pornography was now lodged between chapters on the isosceles triangle and the Pythagorean theorem, the gun precariously tucked in that pair of sagging slacks.” However, research has shown an increase in the incidence of back injuries in some students, which has been directly attributed to the lack of lockers for the storing of those large text books, thus forcing students to spend more time carrying heavy loads of books in backpacks. According to the Consumer Product Safety Commission, thousands of children, ages ranging from 5 to 18 years, are treated yearly in hospitals and physician offices for injuries related to backpacks.” (Borigini, 2013)

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Conceptual Framework

Input

Process

Output

Implementation of school

As an extra storage to

Prevents possible back

lockers

lessen student’s hassle.

injuries.

Means of exercise.

Respecting each other’s spaces.

Provides personal space.

Creativity is being expressed.

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Theoretical Framework

Input School Lockers

Process

Output

Exercises one’s awareness

Improvements in safe keeping valuable things

Protects privacy

Creativity is being expressed.

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Motivation is boosted.

Hypothesis

1) Lockers are very essential for senior high school students as an extra storage for them to store their books and other valuable items that needs security.

2) Bringing all your books can make the student very exhausted due to back pain and exhaustion. Lockers can be the solution and senior high school students who are living in a very distant places might need this proposal.

3) When it comes to parents, they will also think that their children need lockers for unexpected circumstances that might happen during transportation time. By implementing lockers inside the campus, parents who are very worried about their child’s school projects and books might help them to relieve their stress.

Definition of terms

Aforementioned - mentioned before : spoken about or named earlier.

Dilemma - a situation in which you have to make a difficult choice.

Convenience – something that makes you more comfortable or allows you to do things more easily. 13

Bombardments – used as an act of something that is repeatedly done.

Ease – a relaxed and informal way of behaving.

Implementation – an object used to do work

Perception – the way an individual think about or understand someone or something.

Appropriate – right or suited for some purpose or situation.

Scoliosis – a lateral curvature of the spine.

Storage – space where you put things when they are not being used.

Beneficiaries – a person, organization, etc., that is helped by something: someone or something that benefits from something.

Aberration – the fact or an instance of deviating or being aberrant especially from a moral standard or normal state.

Institution – an established organization.

Etiquette – the rules indication the proper and polite way to behave.

Apparent – easy to see or understand.

Rheumatologist – a person that deals with medical science in dealing with rheumatic diseases.

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Rucksack – a kind of backpack used by hikers.

Amidst – in or into the middle of something.

Essence – the basic nature of a thing.

Converse – to talk usually informally with someone.

Chapter 3 RESEARCH DESIGN Research method Researcher wants to know the perception of senior high school students in implementing school lockers inside the building that they are using. This study will be using survey as it is more appropriate to use due to the variables that are present in the study. Surveys usually involve a representative sample of the population, using a technique like random sampling. A questionnaire is given to each member of the sample and used to infer characteristics of the whole population. This is an interpretation about data with or without aid if statistical treatment. Researchers used a descriptive survey method to analyze the opinion of respondents. They obtain information concerning on a current status of a phenomenon. They used a survey questionnaire as instrument to gather data and request the respondents to answer it.

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Research Locale The researchers will distribute survey questionnaires to the Senior High School students of the University of the East Caloocan. The Senior High School students chose by the researchers as a respondent of this research because they believe that they are the ones who are suited to answer the provided questions with regard to the implementation of school lockers believing that they have the same level of cognitive thinking when it comes to interaction. The researchers opted to conduct the survey in the said area to ensure that the latter will get pertinent data relevant to the study. Considering that the researchers are also student of University of the East Caloocan, gathering of data and information will be more accessible. The researchers will need at least One Hundred (100) Senior High School students of University of the East Caloocan with their perception on the school locker proposal.

Nature of the Subject and Respondents The researchers will be aiming for respondents who are really in need of lockers as it will give us more accurate answers on how to implement a locker. The nature of the subject will be the locker itself, for it is essential in a school for students to have extra storage to store books and other valuable things. Respondents are the one who wants to have a locker because of other external factors that they might experience when carrying books.

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Data Gathering Procedure The researchers make use of a survey questionnaire. They distribute the survey questionnaire to the Grade 12 inside the University of the East Caloocan. They personally go one by one of the classrooms to give a survey questionnaire to each student. Researchers ask permission before they conduct a survey inside the campus. The results of the survey questionnaires will be recorded to have valid and reliable information. The data will be tallied, analyzed and interpreted according to the specific answers of the students.

Research instruments The researchers will be using a questionnaire as an instrument to be able to gather data about the topic. The type of questionnaire that will be using by the researcher is scale type to answer it easily and properly by the respondents. The answers that will be given by the respondents will be considered confidential so that the that questionnaire will be answered truthfully by the respondents. The answers will be collected and assisted by the researchers to interpret the results.

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