“This School Can Be Way Better!”
“This School Can Be Way Better!”
Transforming Grant Elementary
This chapter first examines parents’ activities at Grant, considering the involvement and agendas of different groups, and shows that although parental involvement was not limited to the middle and upper-middle classes, their views about the school’s needs and of the value of different types of involvement varied by class. Working-class parents focused on supporting the school while middle- and upper-middle-class parents were interested in transforming it. The chapter then turns to parents’ differential status at the school, which was rooted in race and class but also in the particulars of the Center City Schools Initiative, and how that affected their ability to achieve their goals.
Keywords: public schools, parental involvement, class differences, social class, middle class, working class
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