Public policies of education in Brazil: school failure, blame of the students and innocence of the school Janine

Abstract

The present study discusses education policies in Brazil, focused on issues of blame of the child who fails in school, from the unilaterality of the gaze, when the school refuses to discuss its evaluation, selection and classification criteria. Disregarding the social, family and economic contexts of the students means to consider that these students have equal performances, acquire their skills and abilities from the same pedagogical method and with the same pace of learning. This study evidences the falsity of these premises, when it recognizes the relevance of the individual differences and the attempt of the school's innocence in relation to its own performance. Recent research (2015) points out that learning difficulties result in failure at school, represent teachers' unpreparedness to understand differences, and pedagogical errors in adopting methods that distanced themselves from children's linguistic and cultural repertoires. It is also noticed the absence of Social Worker mediation between the family, the school and the community to facilitate the success of the child in school.