New High School Suspension: what you need to know

*This report was updated at 19:15 p.m.

After a meeting with the president Squid (PT), minister Camilo Santana, confirmed the implementation schedule for the new secondary education was suspended, as well as the changes to Enem. According to the minister, there will be adjustments to the model, but there are no plans for repeal.

Therefore, the new High School is not revoked, as student movements against the reform want, calling for the return of the model of 13 traditional subjects. In this regard, nothing changes in schools, at least for now.

What is the New Secondary Education?

In 2016, Michel Temer's government signed a provisional measure that became Law 13.415/2017, amending the National Education Guidelines and Bases Law (LDB) and creating a new “architecture” for the High School curriculum.

In the reform, the workload was increased, giving the possibility for technical and professional training and allowing optional subjects in all schools in Brazil.

The model would be mandatory for public and private schools. Disciplines began to be grouped into areas of knowledge, such as languages, mathematics, natural sciences and human sciences.

Furthermore, the law provides for an increase in classroom hours. Previously, students had 2.400 class hours during high school, in the New High School the load would reach 3.000 class hours.

Why change?

A shower of dissatisfaction from public school students and teachers. This year, more students started to follow the New High School rule, and then the model became more criticized by student organizations.

The most contested points are the reduction in teaching hours for traditional subjects and also the greater inequality between public and private schools.

Some experts and NGOs working in the cause of education have taken a different position: what has come into effect presents mistakes and is far from being ideal, but it is not possible to go back and paralyze all the reforms carried out, as pointed out by the executive president. of the movement All for Education, Priscilla Cruz.

In an article published on the Poder 360 website, Priscila Cruz emphasizes that it is necessary to look at the complex issue appropriately, away from ideological passions:

“We know and are extremely concerned about the problems seen in several Brazilian public schools, arising from the beginning of the so-called New Secondary Education and which, in large part, are due to mistakes in the design of the reform (not just implementation errors). They not only appear in studies and research, but also in the frequent dialogue we have with education professionals across the country. On the other hand, we also understand that there are very important elements in the essence of the new model that need to be preserved for the stage to move forward. Going back to square one would be a huge loss.”

The master in Management and Public Policies from FGV-SP, author of the book “Pontos Fora da Curva”, Olavo Nogueira Filho, has also taken a position on the subject. Today he retweeted a column by the Former Municipal Secretary of Education of SP, Alexandre Schneider, published in Folha de S.Paulo, about the MEC's ​​position in this discussion.

The Brazilian government called for a public consultation to listen to society, institutions, experts in public hearings across the country, workshops, seminars and national research.

Curto Curatorship:

• High School Reform: Lula calls Camilo to explain new plans (Estadão)
• New High School: possible suspension of deadlines divides educators (O Globo)
• Entities and experts call for the revocation of the High School reform (GZH)

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