ABSTRACT
Three main themes have emerged in discussing the roles now assigned to parents as customers, managers and partners in their children’s schooling. These are: school and teacher accountability for the educational experiences they offer; the tension between individual rights and collective rights in social policy; and the ideology of co-operation between parents and teachers in the school experience of individual children. This chapter looks at each of these themes and ends by speculating about the likely direction of parental involvement in schools in the future.
