The school is
a learning center that serves as a custodian of the traditional values of the
community. The school provides knowledge,
friendship, and intelligence. School-community partnerships
play an important role in successful schools, often providing support and
resources to meet staff, family, and student needs that go beyond what is
typically available through the school. The school and community are partners
for the child’s sake.
The relationship with the community provides support,
resources, and information that may include volunteers, local businesses,
community agencies, community leaders, professionals, and/or university or high
school students, or individuals from the community who partner with them. Each
community partner provided unique and individualized support for the welfare of
the learners for them to succeed in various life challenges.
The
partnership may involve the use of school or neighbors’ facilities and
equipment, sharing of other resources, collaborative fundraising raising,
volunteer assistance, mentoring and training from professionals and others with
special expertise, information sharing, and dissemination, networking, shared
responsibility for planning, implementation, and evaluation of programs and
services, expanding opportunities for internships, jobs, recreation and
building a sense of community.
Schools can’t
do it all. This is a
reason why parent and teachers’ association (PTA) Brigada Eskwela and other
school community activities existed and associations/activities center on one thing – to assure that quality
education is being delivered to the learners for they are the most important
clientele of education. The
community may have something to teach the children in the same way that the
school may have something to teach the community. When
schools and the community work together to support learning, everyone benefits
and can prepare for a more promising future. And the pupils may be
directed towards goodness and positive attitudes through collective efforts by
the people surrounding them, and childcare providers, afterschool
programs, resource connectors, mentoring and mental and physical health
providers do as well. Nurturing a child to
be an upright, responsible, and caring citizen is a task worth doing. If a
child is raised in a way that could be beneficial to the
community, there is no way that he will not be able to give pride to that
community someday.
