School in many ways represents an important institution in the lives of children and their parents because it makes a deep structural impression on their lives. This is reflected among other things in the content of communication between parents and children. The article focuses on the experience of school that is shared by boys and girls and their parents at the end of secondary school, on the form this sharing takes and what importance they attach to it. The results of a survey, which includes in-depth interviews with 16 pupils and a questionnaire for 424 respondents, are presented. These results suggest that children classify information about school in several groups which differ from one another not only thematically but in particular by how much parents need to know. This article also describes specific strategies that children use when communicating with parents
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