A study of parents’ participation in the high schools administration and its effect on school activities

Practitioners and policy makers alike intuitively accept the importance of parental Participation in schools; however, knowing how to meaningfully engage parents for the benefit of all children is less understood. School administrators and teachers face challenges related to reaching all parents in positive ways, implementing strategies that will result in improved student achievement, and balancing the needs of parents’ vis-à-vis educators’ professional autonomy.The statistical populations of this research have been all the students’ Parents, administrators and teachers of high schools in Tabriz city (500 high schools) of Iran during the academic year 2007-2008.All data that were gathered were analyzed and entered using SPSS software. The results yielded a statistically significant correlation between parents participation and decision making, children learning and school activities in reading (p < .01). All hypothesis are accepted and also we decide that the factors (decision-making, children learning and school activities) of parents participation have significance relationship together and the effects are real.