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Playing Their Parts: What Parents and Teachers Really Mean by Parental Involvement; To what degree should parents be involved in public schools? Is it enough to chaperone or bake an occasional cake, or should they be making policy decisions? Or is their role just to produce well-behaved, motivated kids and then stand aside? Public Agenda polled parents and teachers to examine aspects of parental involvement, finding some agreement and a lot of frustration when comparing perceptions, desires and reality.