High School: orphan of ideas, heir of misunderstandings

• Autor(a) principal: Castro, Claudio de Moura
• Data de Publicação: 2008
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Título da fonte: Ensaio (Rio de Janeiro. Online)
• Texto Completo: https://revistas.cesgranrio.org.br/index.php/ensaio/article/view/554
• topic: Enseñanza media; Enseñanza superior; Formacion profesional; Sistema único; Fijacion de valores; High School; Higher education; Professional formation; Unique system; Fixation of values; ensino medio; ensino superior; formação profissional; sistema único; fixação de valores

High School is the meeting point of big contradictions in Brazilian education system because it plays a lot of roles. We can say that it is a level in permanent crises. The major problem of high school is in having to prepare half of its students to work and the other half to higher education. These two things differ a lot from each other; since there's a big distance between values and functional attitudes concerning both. High school inherits all the problems from the primary school and add them new model in the world. There is no alternate route between schools with different faces (European model); and there isn't any possibility of taking different paths in the same school either (American model). There is a wide debate on the solution to our high school system. Some of the big lines can be suggested, principally because they deal with mistakes which corrections are necessary. But, soon, however, it will be necessary to have enough courage to solve the problem concerning the unique system, which in theory, offers the same school to everybody, but in fact, it doesn't offer anything, even a good education. Besides that, it still discriminates the poor people. Only Brazil has this system. Only Brazil pays the price for this impossible utopia.