ABSTRACT
Schools that are complacent about their relationships with parents say one of two things (sometimes both). They say that parents (those that don’t turn up to parents’ evenings, PTA meetings or the annual parents’ meeting) are apathetic, they don’t think that their children’s education is important. Or they say that parents don’t feel the need to come, because they are happy with everything the school does. Any governing body that accepts these views is doing its parent body-even if only a small part of it-a grave injustice.
