PRACTICE AND CHALLENGES OF SCHOOL AND COMMUNITY INTERACTION IN CASE OF ABBA FRUNSUA PRIMARY SCHOOL

Abstract

This research was conducted in gurage zone wolikte town on the topic practiceand challenge school and community interaction in wolikte primary school. The major objective of this study was to identify the practice and challengethe school and community to mitigate those problems by employing descriptive research design. To gather information, the researcher use, questionnaires and intervies as data gathering instruments.. The method used to analyze and interpret the data was qualitative for expressions, fg insruments. The respondents participated in the study were 67 teachers,1617students, 1 principals, 13 committee members and PTAs total respondents were 33. The method useelings, and attitudes, quantitative for descriptive and the numerical data was expressed in number and percent. The finding of this research indicates that 24.3% of the respondents have good understanding about the issue of school community participation. The finding also shows that lack of experience, weakness of the school `to draw the attention of the community, ability to put much effort for effective feature and efficient utilization of community resources contributed a lot for the weakness to implement the objective of school community interaction in this school. On the finding of the research the researcher suggested and recommended the following points