BAU Researched the “School Safety in Turkey”

The “School Safety in Turkey” research results carried out by Bahçeşehir University (BAU) and the security company CSG (City Security Group) and through IKSARA Research Company was shared with the public during a press conference held on Tuesday the 10th of September 2013 at Bahçeşehir University.

BAU Chairman of the Board of Trustees Enver Yücel, New York University’s Professor and IKSARA Research Company’s Research Director Ass. Dr. Selçuk Şirin, CSG Chairman of the Board of Directors Osman Öztürk and BAU Sociology Head of Department Prof. Dr. Nilüfer Narlı has joined the press conference. Regarding the survey conduct from 13 to 15 August 2013 with 1000 people had revealed that parents are extremely worried about “school safety”. The research results show that most of the parents are worried about the security of their child during their time at school.

The face-to-face interviews note that 3 out of every 4 parents participating to the survey are worried about the safety of their child during school time. Parents with a high level of education and income are the most uncomfortable group concerning the environment of trust at schools; the student's parents of 60% think that, most of the students apply violence to each other and threat by verbally as well. According to the survey the parents do not complain only the safety at school. 64 percent of parents think that children are not safe on the way to school. The proportion reach to  80% at the student's parents when their children are using public transports or by walking to school, and reach to 50% at the parents that they are worry when the children get to go to school by school bus while it’s on the way

The other “School Safety in Turkey” research results carried out by Bahçeşehir University (BAU) and the security company CSG (City Security Group) through IKSARA Research Company are as follows:

• 1 out of every 2 people living in Istanbul, think that school administrators and teachers does not have sufficient knowledge and equipment about security.
• 81% of respondents believe that schools need private security officers.
• This rate is 85% for parents who had a child reaches school age.
• 76% of the respondents think that private security officers in schools would be beneficial in preventing crime. For parents this rate is 80%.
• 41% of respondents seeing enough co-operations between private security and the police at schools, 37% poor seeing, and 22% indicates that they don’t have an idea on this issue.
• The more the level of education increases, the more people think that private security-police co-operation in schools is insufficient.