School militants: School parents associations in France.

At the meeting point between the controversy over schools and the questions on the crisis in militancy, the results of a survey carried out on the militant elite of the three large school parents' associations clearly indicate the permanence of associative engagement models based on two logics: private education-state education and leftwing-rightwing logic. Representations of parent participation in the education system, of the ''educative community'' with its ''anti-teacher'' attitudes, underline the fundamental contradictions of the school parents' movement and contribute to its evolution.