Abstract

MANDELERT, Diana. Reprovação em escolas de prestígio. Est. Aval. Educ. [online]. 2012, vol.23, n.53, pp.222-249. ISSN 0103-6831.

This article aims to investigate how failing happens in those schools which are considered and evaluated as the best in the country, where students and teachers find a teaching and administrative structure that works in their favor. We selected two schools that achieved excellence in the 2005 and 2006 Enem exam. We mapped when schools failed students, how many students failed, what happened to the students who failed and finally how schools recomposed classes due to the successive failings that occur during a school generation. It was observed that the quality of teaching as a combination of performance and flow does not occur in these schools. Academic excellence is achieved through an intense selectivity that takes place in various forms, student failing being one of the most important.

Keywords : Grade Repetition; Elites; Social Class; Teaching Quality.

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