According to Cervero and Wilson\'s perspective on program planning, the
political aspect is embedded in working for an educational program. Based on
this theoretical framework, this study is aimed at examining how stakeholders
for an afterschool program interact with each other. A qualitative case study
design for an English course of an elementary school is adopted to attain this
purpose. For this study, stakeholder groups could be categorized as principals
and teachers who are in charge of managing the course, instructors, and
participants\' parents.
The study suggests that since stakeholders have different interests in the
afterschool program, they have different expectations on the program as well as
other stakeholders. It is also an interesting finding that parents\' negative image
on public school and school teachers, are transferred to the afterschool program.
Consequently, parents have low expectation on the effectiveness of the
afterschool program.. Furthermore, throughout the interaction among
stakeholders, asymmetrical power relations had been worked, and, therefore,
stakeholders, particularly parents and instructors could not help keeping their
voices silenced rather than working for their dissatisfaction and concerns.