order to empower them as partners of quality
schools. This is confirmed by Brownell that
community knowledge about the program is the
beginning of attention and support. Therefore,
parents / communities who do not get explanations
and information from schools about what and how
they can help schools (especially in rural areas) will
tend to not know what they will do, how they should
do something to help the school. It is as a result of
their incomprehension. In developed countries,
schools are indeed created by the community, so the
quality of school is at the center of their attention
and they always strive to be defended. This can
happen because they already believe that schools are
the best and convincing way to nurture the growth
and growth of their children. Given the high
confidence in the ability of schools in the formation
of their children in building a good future, they are
actively and optimally participated from the
planning, implementation and supervision of the
management and administration of schools, due to
high awareness of the community concerned.
The importance of parent / community
involvement on the success of this education has
been proven by Richard Wolf in his research which
concludes that there is a very significant correlation
(0.80) between the family environment and the
learning achievement. This research in Indonesia has
also proved the same.
Such high participation does not seem to occur in
developing countries (including Indonesia).
Hoyneman and Loxley stated that in developing
countries most families cannot yet be expected to
help more and lead student learning, so that students
in developing countries spend less time in learning.
This is because many community / parents of
students have not understood the basic meaning of
their role in children's education. Even Made Pidarta
stated that in rural areas where the level of
socioeconomic status is low, they almost ignore
educational institutions and they fully surrender their
child's education responsibilities to the school.
2. The need to manage school relationships with
the community
The educational environment is everything that
exists and takes place around the educational process
(human and physical environment) all of these
environmental circumstances play a role and
contribute to the process of improving the quality of
education and the quality of educational graduates.
Top Management Attention (School Focus) should
strive to integrate educational resources and make
the most of it, so that all of these resources
contribute to the provision of quality education, one
of the sources that needs to be governed is the
community environment or parents, including
stakeholders. The question is: why education
management needs to handle the community (need
school relations and community), optimally parents,
stakeholders, community leaders and institutions in
the community.
School organization is an organization that
embraces open system, as open system means
educational institution will not willingly,
consciously or unconsciously will always occur
contact relationship with its environment called
supra system. These contact relationships are needed
to keep the system or institution from becoming
extinct. An organization that isolates itself, including
the school as an organization if it does not make
contact with its environment, will gradually die.
Naturally (cannot exist), because the organization
will only grow and develop if supported and needed
by the environment. Only an open system has a
misanthropy that is an ongoing effort to block the
possibility of entropy or extinction. This means that
the death of an educational institution will depend
on and determined by the school itself, in terms of
the extent to which it is able to maintain and
maintain its communication with the wider
community or he wants to become an open
organization.
In reality we often encounter schools that do not
have a good name in society will eventually die.
This is because the school is not able to make good
and harmonies relationship with the supporting
community. With a variety of reasons people do not
want to send their children to school, which
eventually makes the school die by itself. Similarly,
a quality school will be sought and even the public
will pay a high price as long as the child is accepted
at the school. This favorite and non-favorite school
seems to be closely related to the ability of the
principal to approach and support his community,
such as community leaders, business leaders,
religious leaders and political figures or
stakeholders.
Hence, since Hajar Dewantara stated that
education takes place in three environments, namely
family, school and community environment. This
means that education will not work if all three
components do not work together in harmony.
Kaufman mentions the partners / partners not only
consist of teachers and students only. But also the
parents /community.
From the above description it is clear that
educational institutions are not independent
institutions in fostering the growth and development
of sons, but they are an inseparable part of a broad
society, and together with society build and improve
all efforts to advance the school. This can be created
if educational institutions are willing to open up and
explain to the community what and how the
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