The Practices And Challenges Of School community Relation In Primary School Management: A case Of Tello Woreda, Southern Nations, Nationalities And Peoples‟ Regional State.

Abstract

The main aim of the study was to assess the factors that affect school- community relation in selected primary schools of Kaff zone, Telloworeda. Accordingly descriptive survey method was employed to investigate the problem. Primary and secondary sources were used in this study. The primary data source was principals, supervisors, and, parent teacher student associations, kebele educational and training board members and students’. Secondary sources of data were relevant documents (minutes, reports, supervision comment and staff meeting agendas) of primary schools. Questionnaires were administrated to 160 sample subjects from five randomly selected primary schools. In addition interview was made with primary school supervisors and principals. The investigated data were analyzed using quantitative and qualitative procedures. Frequencies, percentages, means, standard deviations and one-sample-t-test were applied to answer the research questions. The reliability of the instrument was computed using Cronbach alpha wit result. The finding reveals that the schoolcommunity relation was low. The school performers such as principals, Supervisors, teachers, and parent student teacher association (PSTAs),kebele education tiring boards (KETBs) and students played inadequate roles to promote school-community relation. Factors affecting school-community relation in school affairs are: less community sharing responsibilities, ineffective community mobilization technique, lack of governing policy, fragmentation of function, lack of a way to resolve complains, improper support from local governments, poor leadership, lack of proper communication, absence of linkage between school and community, lack of awareness and misunderstanding of school mission and vision by a school-community. Based on the finding, school-community relation is under problem so as a result students become low achiever. Therefore it is recommended that the concerned bodies like school administers, local government bodies and the community have to do their best to overcome the factors that hindering school community smooth relationship.