Abstract

SAES, Décio Azevedo Marques de. Escola pública e classes sociais no Brasil atual. Linhas Críticas [online]. 2008, vol.14, n.27, pp.165-176. ISSN 1981-0431.

This paper deals with school failure as a social fact in present day Brazil; which means that we must look for its social causes. Our conclusion is that, by increasing considerably the offer of public schooling at primary level and at the same time maintaining the standard of middle-class schooling, there can only be a predominance of the tendency to maintain and even increase school failure of lower class pupils, incapable to rise to the standard of teaching defined by the capitalist State apparatus. And it is difficult to imagine the reformulation of these standards, since the middle class, very influent in the educational field, needs the school failure of the other social classes in order to intensify its own economic and social value.

Keywords : Public School; Middle Class; Working Class; School Failure.

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