This chapter examines how public sector officials and school staff in a multi-ethnic suburb in Stockholm understands collaboration between schools and parents . According to officials and school staff, what is the value of collaboration between schools and parents ? How are the main problems and challenges in involving parents defined? What solutions are offered to these problems and challenges? How are parents constructed as subjects? Both principals and teachers employed two main lines of arguments in their talk about the collaboration between schools and parents , with the one focusing on the parents ’ language and culture , and the other on the parents ’ social exclusion . These lines of arguments provide different ways of understanding parents ’ relations with the school, at the same time as they come together in representing the family as the main cause of a range of social problems.