Does your school have healthy parent-teacher partnerships?

In "Pecking Order: Parent Pressure Is Eclipsing Teacher Control," [2] an article in Edutopia's October issue, writer Evan Chase laments what he calls a "sad parent-teacher divide," in which the parents of his students are overbearing and hostile and behave as if they were his aggressive opponents rather than supportive collaborators. At some schools, however, the problem is the opposite: Teachers are hard pressed to engage their students' parents at all. Some parents are either working too hard to have time to be involved, don't speak English well enough to feel comfortable being involved, or are otherwise disengaged from their child's education.

Assuming that the cultivation of parent-teacher partnerships is key to a successful student and learning environment, do you feel your school has or is moving toward successful partnerships? Tell us about your experience.