The purpose of this study is to examine the school safety accidents and the School Safety Mutual Aid Association. The subjects of this study were teachers from five special schools for the emotionally disturbed. The followings are purposes of this stu...
The purpose of this study is to examine the school safety accidents and the School Safety Mutual Aid Association. The subjects of this study were teachers from five special schools for the emotionally disturbed. The followings are purposes of this study in details;
First, the level of recognition about school safety accidents was investigated and according to the related variables of the teachers(gender, careers, qualifications and classes).
Second, the level of the actual condition of utilization and recognition about School Safety Mutual Aid Association was investigated according to the related variables of the teacherdgender, careers, qualifications and classes).
Two hundred and twenty two teachers were employed from five special schools for the emotionally disturbed. Questionnaires composed of 26 questions were distributed to those teachers.
The results of this study are as follows;
First, most of the teachers in special schools for the emotionally disturbed experienced school safety accidents. The accident ratio reveals higher to freshmen and most of them were boys. The school safety accidents happened mainly in the classrooms and outdoor work-places in the spring and summer by students who had Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. The type of injuries was skin damage and bruise, and the period of medical treatment was less than a week. Injured students were usually treated in the nurse‘s offices and at home. The recognition of the teachers regarding to school safety accidents showed that most teachers experienced difficulty in the process and mental and physical demage. The school safety accidents is mostly caused by overcrowding of the classrooms and students’ problem behaviors. The difficulties of dealing with school safety accidents are to get a comprehension from injured students’ parents, the relationship with them and the loss of honor and moral responsibilities.
Second, the statistic tells that all the schools concerned with the investigation have been joined School Safety Mutual Aid Association and that the teachers(80.7%) who had no experience of using the Association were more than those(l4.6%) who had experience. Most teachers felt a lot of inconvenience in use and were not satisfied with troublesome application procedure and insufficient benefit and indemnity. The need of School Safety Mutual Aid Association is to concentrate on teaching work and to take charge of dealing with school safety accidents by making insurance system for teachers and they wanted government or local self-government to pay the insurance premium. They wanted insurance contraction by the unit of schools. Continuous studies are in need for this study to prevent school safety accident and to avoid teachers’ legal responsibilities in the school safety accident in emotionally disturbed schools.