There should be a good cordial relationship
between the school and the community in administration. It is well known that,
the school is only an integral part of a wider society and is affected by what
is happening in the society. More so, members of the school community play
roles which helps in improving the quality of life in the community as well as
educational system of the society (Ezeoma (1977:71).
As the various Nigerian communities are
becoming very vocal in education sited in their neighbourhood, more and more
citizens now get involved in many educational functions such as
instructional
programming use of facilities and selection of staff , this also apply to
schools in Kaduna North Local Government Area in Kaduna state of Nigeria.
This is why resourceful school administrators
in a community school should try to know who is in the community. He should
maintain a cordial relationship and interact mutually with the citizens who
could be called upon to help the school towards the provision of the basic
infrastructural equipment (Odibi:65)
To Hsueli (1975:15), it is a well known fact
that no government can provide all the buildings equipment and facilities
needed to make a school a first class school. The community and interested
individuals have to help the school in its development. He went on further to
say that for an administrator to get these, he should establish a good
school-administrator.
Okunola (1974:170) indicated most school
administrators/teachers do not spend either the time or their energy in the
community. He declared that most teachers of today lack the requisite
educational training to encourage the various elements in the community to
undertake those activities expected of them. He cited a special case of the
Mexico cultural mission programmes that failed because of the influence of the
political leaders. This also was obtained in the country during the ousted
civilian regime in Nigeria.
Fafunwa
(1971) in addition, stated that the school community relationship should
represent both a point of beginning and a continuing concern for any school
administration. He stated that the school community relationship should consist
of the following: the parent of the pupils, the churches which the pupil
attend, the mass media, the law citizen of the neighbourhood, (p.65).the
development of any school depends to a large extent on the influence of the
above mentioned.
Furthermore, Odibi (1980:66)
remarked that school administrators need to become knowledgeable about the
different groups and organization which the people in their immediate community
belongs to effective and smooth running of their schools and that these groups
and others may have a special interest in education and the school morally and
financially in the running of public education