The problems about school safety at high schools

ABSTRACT The subject of this study is high school students' problems about school safety. It is aimed to determine students' opinions about school safety and its dimensions in order to solve the problem. Theories that might be the basis of school safety, violence, violence types, sexual abuse, and also social and psychological aspects of schools are examined in this study. This descriptive study's population is determined as, high school students who are attending to schools in Antalya province. Questionnaire is til conducted to 707 10 grade students of the 5 high schools which has the largest student population. Acquired data was analysed by SPSS (Statistical Package for Social Sciences) by calculating frequency, percentage and conducting Chi-Square, t-test, One-Way Anova and Scheffe tests. High school students' opinions about school safety are considered in three main dimensions. According to data acquired by the survey, students' opinions seems to be negative in all three aspects, where the first dimension is physical safety, second dimension is social safety and the third dimension is psychological safety. In addition, opinion differences found between students' gender, attended schools, feeling of physical safety and some of the items. IV