Accommodating Parental Participation in Managing School

The objective of this research is to know to what extent parents should be accommodated in managing school. Qualitative method was used to explain to what extent parents need to be actively involved in managing school for the betterment of students’ achievement. Interview and questionnaires were the main instruments used in collecting the data from 50 parents of students of Senior High School in Gorontalo, Indonesia in 2012 who were purposively chosen as informants in this research. Additional data were also taken from students themselves and teachers in this school. The data were then analyzed descriptively to answer the problem statement above. The results show that parental involvement in their children’s education highly correlates with children’s success at school. Keywords: parent, involvement, students, academic performance