Abstract

CASSIO, Fernando. THE “EXPANSION” OF WORKLOAD IN THE BRAZILIAN “NEW” HIGH SCHOOL DEEPENS SCHOOL INEQUALITIES IN THE STATE OF SÃO PAULO. Eccos Rev. Cient. [online]. 2022, n.62, e23200.  Epub Feb 12, 2024. ISSN 1983-9278.  https://doi.org/10.5585/eccos.n62.23200.

Law no. 13.415/2017 of the “Novo Ensino Médio” [“New High School”] (NEM) established that Brazilian school-systems must offer at least 1,000 hours of annual workload for High School from 2022. The obligation to offer a greater annual workload in public schools particularly impacts night-time students, whose school day is historically shorter than day-time students. São Paulo was the first Brazilian State to implement the NEM at scale and, therefore, it is also the first in which the impacts of the Reform are observed. Based on an objective analysis, encompassing State regulations and data related to the expansion of the workload in the NEM of the São Paulo public school-system in 2022, the article argues that the “expansion” of students’ time at school - one of the great promises of the Brazilian High School Reform since 2016 - deepens school inequalities in the State of São Paulo instead of improving the schooling conditions of students. In practice, the “expansion” via distance education in more than 90% of the classes offered - and using the same educational platform used during the pandemic - produces a new wave of precariousness in the school of working students, continuing to the scheduled scrapping of Night High School that has been observed in the State school-system of São Paulo in the last 15 years.

Keywords : Brazilian High School Reform; distance education; educational inequalities; night high school; secondary education..

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