ABSTRACT
Talking to teachers is an important part of home-school relationships and yet research into parental involvement rarely includes any discussion of the vast range of communication between parents and their children's teachers. This chapter focuses on oral communication between mothers and teachers, although it analyzes written communication sent from home into the two schools. Making contact with teachers was a regular feature of maternal involvement across the sample and both groups of mothers initiated contact with teachers. While much of the emotional support of children's schooling took place in the home, occasionally mothers felt they needed to raise children's own concerns teachers. Twice over the course of the fieldwork, Linsey came to see Sophia's teacher because Sophia was upset about her lack of team points. Lareau found that only one working-class parent visited the Headteacher during the course of her field work.
