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Abstract:
The need for school community relations is not in doubt due to attendant benefits derivable from such cooperative interactions. This is because the school is part of community in which it is located. Hence, the full values of education can only be realized by a close cooperation between the school and its host community. This paper therefore surveyed theoretical and conceptual issues about school community relations. In particular, it reviewed previous studies in relevant past literature to underscore the inseparability of the school from its host community due to attendant benefits to be derived. Discoveries from past studies profoundly established that: (1) existence of good community relations by schools aids in securing what the school needs from the community be it financial assistance, technical services, and otherwise. Thus, it is recommended that school administrators can, on the basis of this type of association, evolve a working relationship with the community targeted at discovering and optimizing areas of interactions and benefits geared towards achieving a high quality education performance; (2) that broad areas of cooperation exist between school and community which covered basic and central areas of physical facilities, economic and financial contributions, general service and help, research knowledge and cultural records, teaching, curriculum, management, roles of international, regional and bilateral organizations. School administrators should therefore endeavour to profit from these expanded cooperative and beneficial roles of school environment towards effective and efficient management of their schools in a bid to raise school standards and quality of the Nigerian educational system to desired levels in this 21st century world. Keywords:. School and Community Relations, Parents and Guardians, School Children and Wards, Alienative Relationship, Model Relationship, Cooperative Relationship \
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