ABSTRACT
This chapter examines school choice arguing that it presupposes the character of the relationship between school and parent. It shows how school-parent partnerships can be described and formulated. The chapter explores two topics: first, the Ritalin Craze and second, School as Home, both of which make demands on parents, their responses and support systems for children in various forms of distress in which the author argue the case for institutional altruism. It explores the philosophical parameters of the choice debate, the significance of positional goods as the held purpose of education by parents, parental rights and outlines a proposal to take a moral partnership between schools and parents seriously. Parents search for their child's success and view education with a strong emphasis on positional goods at the expense of any supposed public goods. Standing back from educational provision might give government a much more powerful and perhaps sensible role, in the pursuit of social justice.
