ABSTRACT
The education officer has to identify and accept the democratic pattern of the service, considering the roles of all the participants in the light of the education acts. The concept of community participation in education has evoked some of the most enthusiastic and woolly-minded responses in the whole of recent social history. The community school endeavours to improve living conditions in space and time: it offers its facilities to the community, it works out a curriculum adapted to the needs and potential of society. The enthusiasm and woolly-rnindedness about community participation generally applies equally to talk about parental involvement. The charge that this is undemocratic can hardly is sustained: councillors are elected directly by the people and can be removed by them and there seems nothing wrong in their nominating persons whom they consider suitable people to act as governors.
