This study investigates the teachers' perception about the relationship of parents' school
participation and the possibility of academic rewards, decreasing the educational gap using
interview data with Kangnam and Non-kangnam school teachers. Major findings are like
these. First, teachers perceive the parents' school participation by instrumental viewpoint.
Furthermore, there are a lot of differences in the understanding of parents' motivation for
school participation between Kangnam and Non-kangnam school teachers. Second, teachers
don't admit the possibility of direct academic rewards through parents' school participation.
This study points the main reasons such as competitiveness sense and non-formal
information network of parents, parents' mistrust for reliability of school evaluation and
teachers' survival strategy, and teachers' perception of curriculum and school daily life.
Third, teachers think that there are indirect rewarding mechanism, for example counseling,
information exchange, raising the expectancy level for students whose parents actively
participate schools. This study, from these findings, suggests that the fundamental reflection
of teachers' perception and parents' school participation are needed to get a
community-valued school participation and decreasing the educational gap.