Parents' involvement with schools in a Mexican border town

6 kindergarten, 13 elementary, and 7 secondary teachers in a Mexican border town were surveyed to examine parental involvement with schools. Most teac hers indicated parents of their students helped with their child's school w ork, volunteered, raised money, and attended school functions as well as pa rent-teacher conferences. Serving as room mother was more frequently report ed by kindergarten than elementary teachers and by more elementary than sec ondary teachers as an activity in which their students' parents engaged.