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Not all students had access to distance education during the suspension period of the classroom classes. Especially in the poorest families, problems with the Internet connection, for example, prevented children and young people from following online activities during the pandemic.
Before inequality in access to education, is it okay to fail students in 2020? If all are automatically approvedHow to deal with the gaps left for months without contact with the teachers?
There is also a concern with junior high school students. If they are retained, they can drop out of school to enter the job market. On the other hand, if they are approved, they will not have the 2021 course to recover content that should have been taught in 2020.
In the opinion of the National Council of Education (CNE), an organ of the Ministry of Education, the recommendation is to review the evaluation methods and adopt measures that “Minimize school retention”, since “students cannot be penalized even more in the post-pandemic”.
However, it is specified that the decision must be made by each school or educational network, both public and private.
As a representative of the private sector, the National Confederation of Educational Establishments (Confenen) says that the determination must be “from the school, analyzing non-contact activities, the quality of the results and, mainly, the development of skills”.
The important thing is to make diagnostic evaluations, according to Maria Angela Barbato Carneiro, coordinator of the Center for Research on Gaming at PUC-SP and professor at the university. “Based on the results, recovery plans should be drawn up for 2021,” he says.
Next, see the different positions of specialists in education, pedagogues, secretaries of state networks and coordinators of private schools in the country. There are five suggestions:
- approve all students;
- allow failure only in private schools, where distance education was available;
- cancel the school year for public schools and suspend all of its students, to give them the opportunity to really learn in 2021;
- join the academic years 2020 and 2021, thinking of failure only at the end of the biennium;
- evaluate each case individually.
1. “All automatically approved”
“Disapproval? No way. It is an unusual situation, it would be very unfair. We closed schools in March, at the beginning of the school year, there was not even time to meet the students. How will I evaluate what they have learned? ”Asks Raquel Lazzari, professor at the Unesp de Assis School of Education (SP).
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“Some didn’t even have a computer or the internet. And even in private schools, I don’t think it’s okay to fail. It was a very different period for students and teachers ”.
Marcia Sigrist Malavasi, a professor at Unicamp’s Faculty of Education, agrees. “No one should be disapproved of during the pandemic. It is inappropriate, irresponsible. We cannot see what conditions the child or young person has at home, ”he says.
“The moment is to plan what will be done in the resumption, to recover what was not absorbed. This is not the time to think about passing or failing someone. “
Experts reinforce that retention was already a debatable measure before the pandemic. According to Lazzari, the student who repeats the year runs greater risk of losing interest in studies and dropping out of school.
And even if you continue studying, you will hardly have gaps in learning.
“There is no point in failing and doing everything again, in the same way, to solve the problem. He didn’t learn the first time, ”he says.
Ideally, you should rethink your teaching methods in the coming year and establish ongoing tutoring and remedial plans. It is not enough to move the student to the next grade.
2. ‘Private students took classes online. It can be rejected ‘
The coordinators and directors of private schools argue that their students have privileged economic conditions, which allow them to pursue distance education without difficulty.
In addition to occasional problems with unstable internet or power outages, everyone had access to online classes and assessments during the pandemic.
Thus, If they do not achieve the expected performance, they can be rejected at the discretion of private institutions.
With hybrid teaching, teachers must serve students in the classroom and online. – Photo: Disclosure
“We are confident to say that learning is preserved for our students. We will be flexible, because it was an atypical year, but not everyone will make it through the year”Says Renato Júdice, director of one of the units of the Rio Branco College, in São Paulo.
Patrícia Moldes, pedagogical coordinator of the Colégio Helyos, in Feira de Santana (BA), says that she will try to avoid failure with the assistance of turns of doubt, recovery and reinforcement. However, if the student still does not achieve the expected performance, they may fail.
Reinforces that The economic reality of the students is a decisive element in the discussion.. “In our school, we had the best possible scenario that the virtual world offers. But it is an uneven country. Here in the city, we meet students from municipal and state schools who are out of class. You cannot fail, he says.
Luiz Rafael Silva, coordinator of the Mopi private school in Rio de Janeiro, agrees. “Our work becomes easier, because we deal with the middle class, the upper middle class. In a public school the groups are not homogeneous and, by far, it is difficult to know the reality of each student ”, he says.
3. ‘School year canceled in public schools. Technically: they all fail ‘
For Ivan Gontijo, coordinator of the Todos Pela Educação project, the damage caused by the closure of schools will not be repaired in one or two years.
“Some students managed to adapt, but most had difficulties. Our proposal is to fail all the poorest students, a kind of automatic failure in public schools. It is a way to make up for lost time, without leaving anyone behind or increasing inequality, ”he says.
“The solution to approve all is complicated. There are learning rights. You cannot approve a child who has not learned anything. The school year would have to be canceled. ”
Public school students find it more difficult to access remote education. – Photo: Raul Santana / Fiocruz
According to the Todos Pela Educação specialist, automatic disapproval would not apply in private schools. “If everyone received the content correctly, an evaluation logic can be created, because they are starting from similar conditions. So, yes, it may make sense to think about failing or approving each student ”, defends the specialist.
4. ‘Combine school years in public schools. Failure, only in 2021 ‘
In Espírito Santo, the 2020 academic year will join the 2021 academic year. Therefore, students can only fail at the end of the biennium.
“There is no reason to fail in the middle of this course. Like any other person, in a normal year he fails in July ”, says Vitor de Angelo, secretary of Education of the state.
Vitória school court. – Photo: Playback / TV Gazeta
“Neither option is optimal, the gap will be a reality. But we are going to organize the students by levels: depending on their performance, they will have different pedagogical interference in 2021. You can even apply evaluations, but without the possibility of failing someone in 2020. Even if they wanted to, could everyone study? There are social and economic factors that may have created obstacles. ”
The biennia will not be valid for the last years of each school stage: 5th and 9th grade of primary school and 3rd grade of high school.
In these grades, there are more and more cases in which the student changes schools and networks (from municipal to state), and it would be unfeasible to join the study plans. To correct possible gaps, reinforcement actions will be applied to all. No one will fail.
5. “Rejection only for specific cases”
Vitor Balthazar, Undersecretary of Education for the state of Santa Catarina, says the network has been structured to offer students the possibility to study remotely, either through online platforms or through printed materials. Still, about 3% of the students received no services.
To decide who will be approved at the end of the year, a panel will be organized with the history of each of the more than 525 thousand students in the network, says the secretary.
According to Balthazar, only those who did not participate in the classes will be retained by choice, not by difficulty.. “Still, if that happens, it will be an exception. Our priority is to guarantee learning, ”he says.
What to do in the 3rd year of high school?
The disapproval discussion is different for the last year of basic education. Retaining the student who would have already earned a high school diploma can lead her away from school. On the other hand, not giving access to classes can harm students who want to pass the National Baccalaureate Exam (Enem) or in the entrance exams. What to do then?
- Create a fourth year in high school. In the São Paulo state network, there will be the option of attending school for an “extra” year, to prepare for higher education. TO G1, the state education secretary said the details are still being worked out – it is not yet known if they will be extra classes, only with students who have graduated, or if this group will be mixed with classes that were in the second year in 2020 and it will move to the third year in 2021.
- Implement an extra semester of classes, as if it were a free pre-university entrance exam. “One option is to place these students in the halls of public universities. Higher education teachers could expand their weekly workload to give private lessons to these classes ”, suggests Gontijo, from Todos Pela Educação.
- Give the diploma to the students, but offer a reinforcement system structured in late 2020 and early 2021.
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