APPRAISAL OF COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION IN THE ADMINISTRATION OF PUBLIC SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN EDUCATION ZONE “C”
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
Background of the Study
Education is recognized as the cornerstone for sustainable development.
Education is a veritable instrument for achieving economic development and social
transformation of every society. Fertig (2000) regards education as a social
responsibility that every citizen should enjoy as a member of a country and that
everyone has a right to education. Federal Republic of Nigeria (2004) also accepted
education as an instrument that brings about even and orderly development for a
country. Senge (2006) opined that socio-economic development of any nation hinges
on its level of educational development. The author further stressed that any country
that fails to educate her citizens is trying with the level of her development; hence
education is regarded as an investment which must yield high dividend.
Consequently, Ogundele (2008) noted that Nigeria as a country is faced with a
lot of crises in her educational industry. These crises had been attributed to inadequate
funding, poor and irregular payment of salaries, students’ population explosion, poor
teachers’ job satisfaction, and inadequate supply of educational facilities and needed
equipment for effective teaching learning process. The result of this brings about low
quality and fallen standard of education in our secondary school system. The filmsy
excuse of the government is that government alone cannot take up total
responsibilities of education that it has to be paid for by all and sundry.
Due to the inability of Government to attend to these issues, appraisal of
community participation in the administration of public secondary schools becomes
necessary. Appraisal is an expert estimation of quality, quantity and other
characteristics of someone or something.