ABSTRACT
In years ahead, it is believed that parental participation in school affairs will become increasingly more accepted, pervasive, and effective. More than any other educational movement, the participation of parents, the first and most important teachers of school children, will inevitably produce dramatic changes in the governance of schools and schooling. It is felt that parents will become equal partners with school professionals in deciding what schools ought to, can, should not and cannot do. Similarly, they will become equally responsible for the failure or success of U.S. public education. For it stands to reason: without outside participation and support, schools cannot really succeed. They need help from without, and parents, it is believed, can provide it if and when given a substantive chance to make the difference.
