School's Relationships With The Community: Role Of The School Leader

School`s Relationship With The Community Name Institution School`s Relationship With The Community The development of any community or nation depends on education.Schools on their own have no adequate means of preparing students for the future and neither can the community independently achieve the same purpose. For both sides to benefit mutually from the other, collaboration is necessary between the two. It is only by integrating with the community that the schools can effectively tend to the needs of the students, the staff and families. On the part of the community, schools make it easier for families and youths to access services and various aids through linking them with the relevant agencies. Therefore, the school-community relationship plays a vital role in the provision of quality education, development of the community and improving the state of families and thus should be encouraged. The importance of school and community relationship goes back to the historical times where school was charged with the responsibility of producing obedient and skilled citizens to the society. Whereas emphasis was placed on concentrating on the practical side of learning, Tozer, Violas and Senese (2012) believed in focusing on the theory. Essentially, both the theoretical and practical aspects were applied in the education system of that time. For example, apart from the normal school training the youths were also required to take part in extra curricula activities such as gymnastics and wrestling to prepare them to defend their states from external attacks. This training was also supposed to be in preparation of joining the military in order to serve the nation. Overall, this meant that schools were used as the avenues of raising the youths in such a way that they would be useful members of society. Inarguably, it is hard for the school and community to exist without the other if quality education is to be achieved. These are sentiments echoed by Gonzalez (2018) who agrees that none can operate in isolation. It is true that the organization of a society is largely dependent on the quality of education provided in school. Logically, the main idea of having schools in the first place is to help address the specific needs and problems of a community. Therefore, the life of the student`s social environment has to be reflected in the curriculum for the school to achieve its intended purpose and for the education to be considered valuable. In the end, a good education system is reflected through producing a good society where members are equipped with the necessary skills to contribute to the development of the community. On the same note, a good society contributes to providing a good school system through offering opportunities for practical experience, career opportunities or access to other facilities outside school. Therefore, even though both have a responsibility to each other, the school has the major role of aligning its curriculum in a way that can directly benefit the whole community and the nation at large. School-community relationship helps in the development of the community by making available important services. Agencies outside the school system plus other social reformers usually target to help needy children or struggling fami...