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The Grade School Christian Living and Good Manners and Right Conduct (CL/GMRC) teachers of the School of Saint Anthony, Lagro, Philippines conducted a survey to determine the prevailing concerns of Grade School pupils. This research sought to understand the concerns of Elementary pupils in the Family, School, Friends, and Media perspectives that may possibly affect them. These serve as ways to determine how to approach the pupils and be able to identify methods on how to teach them to cope, solve, and deal with their concerns as Grade School pupils. The participants of the study were 115 Preschool, 461 Lower School and 532 Middle School pupils from the School of Saint Anthony. The survey aimed to discover the things that made the Elementary pupils happy and sad, and what their interests are and focus during their Elementary years. In general, this study investigated the prevailing concerns that were bothering the Grade School pupils at present. It can be derived from the findings that pupils were greatly affected by the following factors: first would be the atmosphere at home, followed by the school factors, then relationship with friends, and media influence which they found difficult to deal with. In the Family Perspective, some of the concerns of the pupils included parents who were too busy and had no time for them; they had siblings that tease them; sick family members, strict parents, parents who were away from them or abroad, and parents’ relationships. In the School Perspective, on the other hand, pupils’ concerns included being bullied by classmates, receiving low grades, experiencing difficult subjects, doing several home works and requirements, and allowance. Some of the views raised in the perspective of Friends included not having time with friends, friends ignoring them, being bullied by friends, being rejected by them and not having true friends. Lastly, in the Media and other perspectives, a small percentage was obtained from pupils’ concerns, such as pet-related, physical appearance, having and playing with gadgets, status in facebook, and money. |
