The Ontario Ministry of Education (2010) puts forth parent involvement as a solution for underachievement and as a resource for building better schools. A Foucauldian discourse analysis of school newsletters reveals that efforts to engage parents also function as a neoliberal strategy designed to govern parents. Using Foucault’s theory of governmentality, I show how the newsletters compel parents to invest in their children’s schooling and judge their value as parents in relation to their ability to produce good neoliberal citizens. I discuss how the newsletters depict ‘good’ parents as those who: (1) do not offer input into schooling; (2) make education a parenting priority and (3) raise good neoliberal citizens. The newsletters represent a strategy for cultivating neoliberal parents who do not ask more from schools and instead demand more of themselves in terms of preparing their children for school and for life. Problems with this approach are that: it asks parents to take up their children’s schooling in ways that push out other family priorities and it shuts down potential collaborations between parents and schools that could challenge neoliberal subjecthood. I call for reformulating discourses of ‘good’ involvement in ways that allow for more equal parent–school partnerships.

安大略省教育部（2010年）提出家长参与作为解决成绩不佳的解决方案和建设更好的学校的资源。对学校时事通讯的福柯式话语分析表明，与父母互动的努力也是旨在管教父母的新自由主义策略。我使用福柯的政府性理论，展示了时事通讯如何迫使父母投资于子女的学业，并根据其养育好的新自由主义公民的能力来判断父母作为父母的价值。我讨论了时事通讯如何将“好父母”描述为：（1）不提供教育投入；（2）将教育作为育儿的重中之重，（3）培养良好的新自由主义公民。通讯代表了一种培养新自由主义父母的策略，这些父母不向学校提出更多要求，反而在为孩子上学和生活做准备方面要求更多自己。这种方法的问题在于：它要求父母以推销其他家庭优先事项的方式来承担子女的学业，并且关闭父母与学校之间可能挑战新自由主义主体性的潜在合作。我呼吁以允许更平等的父母与学校伙伴关系的方式来重新表述“良好”参与的话语。它要求父母以推销其他家庭优先事项的方式来承担子女的学业，并关闭父母与学校之间可能挑战新自由主义主体性的潜在合作。我呼吁以允许更平等的父母与学校伙伴关系的方式重新表述“良好”参与的论述。它要求父母以推销其他家庭优先事项的方式来承担子女的学业，并关闭父母与学校之间可能挑战新自由主义主体性的潜在合作。我呼吁以允许更平等的父母与学校伙伴关系的方式重新表述“良好”参与的论述。