DPS Bhagalpur

Some schools give themselves this label because they serve the local community needs in education. They may also use it to express that they are a community of pupils and teachers. This is making the school aim more social and personal. We are a community and we learn together, is one way of describing this identity. How much they represent a real community varies much but it may still be the aim of the school to pursue this as well as they can.

If the aim of a school is to be a learning community, it has to define that more clearly or it may be just a loose and detached curriculum of lessons and activities that do not relate with each other. This fracturing means there is not co-ordination between the social and academic activities.

In this situation isolation of school sections occurs even if pupils and teacher live on the campus. Standards of care and welfare may not have equal management and the type of education approaches may not even achieve any reasonable academic aims.  A community can be a situation of chaos or of extreme order but it is not enough to have the community label and not seek the good standards in all areas of the school’s organisation.