A DIFFERENT APPROACH TO SCHOOL AND COMMUNITY RELATIONS IN A DEPRESSED COMMUNITY.

This article presents information on school and community relations. Every school makes an effort to reach the community which it serves. Achievements have not been very desirable in most of the cases. After the first attempts are made without the expected results, the community is sealed with many adjectives such as lazy people, indifferent community, lack of responsibility, ignorant people, and others. On the other hand, the lay people start doing incorrect judgment about the school due to the fact that they do not know what the school is doing and how the job is performed. A barrier is established little by little and each one assumes a very defensive attitude. In most of the cases the Parents' and Teachers' Associations is organized. The first meeting is usually called for that purpose at the beginning of the school year. The main objective of the meeting is to appoint the new executive board. The way that the executive board is chosen is very well known. In the majority of the cases the faculty knows before hand who the members are going to be.