Middle school parents should NOT be invisible. In effective schools, parents are involved in many ways. They can serve as tutors for students and as volunteers in the media center.
Parents can volunteer to help with school's building and grounds committee and with fund-raisers.
They are needed to chaperone field trips, to help teachers prepare for programs, and are even still needed to prepare snacks and treats for students and teachers. It may be difficult for you to make that first contact with a middle school. For both parents and students, adjusting to the difference between a smaller, more family-style elementary school and a larger middle school can be tough. Your child will have several teachers instead of one, and each teacher will be assigned many more students. The daily schedule may be more complicated than in elementary school.