Schools provide social services to students and their families . Schools are educational resources for parents as well as children . Schools make efforts to inform and involve parents . Parents are enlisted as partners in their children's education . Parents are involved in the governance of the school .
Parent involvement is a two-way street .
Parent Involvement At Hollibrook Elementary School in Houston, Texas, parents often go to school along with their children. A Parent Center on the school campus is devoted to parent meetings and informal activities. Mothers, with toddlers in tow, gather there to work on school projects and to socialize. A Parent University program offers classes in English as a Second Language, and other subjects, to parents. In the year before the opening of Hanshaw Middle School in Modesto, California, the principal visited 500 homes in the neighborhood, talking to parents about their perception of school.