CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
Background of the Study
For the school to achieve its goals, meets the needs of students and fulfill the expectation of parents, there should be good linkage between the teachers and parents. Parents are experienced people who are conversant with child psychology and development. They, therefore, know the needs of their children at difference stages of development. In view of this, the parents are in a better position to give useful advice to teachers when necessary. Individual parents could be invited to school for discussion on their children’s welfare. The principal with the assistance of the staff point at the children weakness, and give suggestions for improvement. The Parents Teachers Association (PTA) is a forum for teachers and parents to meet and discuss issues relating to the welfare of the parents and teachers. Through the Parents Teachers   Association (PTA) meeting. Parents could be educated or enlightened on the discipline and causes of student’s delinquency. Through this, the parents will have an insight into the causes of the students’ problems and know more effective ways of dealing with such problems. They will also know the danger associated with ineffective discipline. The organization of Parents Teachers Association (PTA) in most schools raises a number of questions as to:
(1)    Whether the PTA provide fund for school?
(2)    Without the PTA, can the school not raise funds?
(3)    How much has the PTA helped in the discipline of students in schools?
Really, the PTA provides funds for the school by way of levy or donation.
Secondly, the school cannot raise levy without the PTA. This is because PTA represents the community in which the school is built.
According to Cotton and Wikelund (2001), many benefits are accrued for the school and for parents themselves when parents become involved in their children’s school activities. They maintained that, school personnel benefit from the improved rapport that generally accompanies increased parents involvement.
This rapport is often expressed in parents’ increased willingness to support school with their labour and resources during fund-raising activities or special projects. Beside, Henderson (1987). Hicks and Sammons (1992) AND Hillman and Mortimore (1995) had showed  in their various studies that parental  presence in the school activities  and participation in committees’  events and their activities  all had positive  effects on achievement.
Adewuyi (2002), also submitted  that active  parent involvement  and positive  home-school-community  relations have been shown to positively  influence effective schooling  and students’ achievement .
Ajayi (1999) also posited that, effective administration of schools could be hampered where the PTA is not performing its roles as expected. Also, Ajayi (2007) posited that, the school and the community are interdependent and interrelated and for the relationship between them to be meaningful, worthwhile and productive, they must be willing to assist each other to achieve their respective goals in atmosphere of love, mutual trust and cooperation.
Abiola A.O. (1967), since  a child’s welfare and all round developments  are concerns of a parents  that is why parents are giving a role in the administrative of secondary school. This means that the Parents Teachers Association is interested in the cooperation of the school system.
Parents  responsibilities as  stakeholders in secondary schools lies in motivation towards ensuring  the students attend schools; is appropriately  dressed, has a healthy lifestyle, so that he /she can learn, ensuring that the student does his/her home-work, supporting school’s sanctions against the student in case of misbehavior, ensuring that the student receives treatment  where necessary.
Teachers are blamed for their inefficiency in classroom. Students are blamed for their care free attitude, non- compliance to school rules and regulations and poor reading culture. School principals are blamed for inadequate supervision, government on inadequate funding and parents on poor motivation of their children and also on their lukewarm attitude towards their children education.  Most  parents are too busy running after wealth  at the expense  of good up-bring  of their children, and school’s are blamed for promoting unwanted and ungodly  behavior  like examination malpractices  and several other inadequacies.
Parents Teachers Association and Secondary School Administration in Kwara State of Nigeria can only play their role properly within the framework of effective school management and administration. Effective administration of secondary school in Kwara State of Nigeria may only be attempted through a complete democratization  of the administrative machinery that involves  not only the education experts in the State Board of Education, Local Government  Education  Authority, principals of school but also teachers and parents who have a common view about the students welfare. In the past, effective school administration was conceptualized in terms of expert’s management at micro level and the principals of the schools. Parents and teachers were to help the school. Hence, many secondary schools have their signs of reading “Parents may go beyond the point”. As time went on, they  will  realized  that for any secondary school to be able to meets her stated objectives that administration should not only be concentrated  in the hands of experts  but also those directly  concerned  about the students which are the parents and teachers.