Community is a part of the society and education is the counterpart of both the above mentioned elements. School is the social institution where consciously designed learning experiences are provided with the objectives of achieving social aim at large, over a period of time. School is also defined as a subsystem of the larger system of the society. It has to functionally coordinate with its immediate environment, the community in which it is situated.
The community is meant to employ a wider grouping of people located within fairly recognizable boundaries, and related to each other by socio-economic and civic activities which produce oneness among them sufficient to develop a recognizable identity as a group. The main group and agents involved in the dynamics of the relationship between school and community arc: school administration, teachers, non-teaching staff, students and parents, governing bodies and school board.
Beyond immediate proximity with the schools are the local political authorities, governmental bodies and political parties as well as other public, social and cultural institutions. Parent’s are always in a constant touch with the school and arc proper channel of the procedure which is the part of the community.
Though parents meetings in a school is informal of the general ignorance of people in a village regarding keeping their immediate surrounding clean staff members can take up this as a serious mission. Hence, parents are a counterpart of the school subsystem.