Algumas reflexões sobre a educação brasileira no contexto da pandemia de Covid-19: um olhar especial para Barra do Garças-MT

Abstract

The covid-19 pandemic made it impossible for classes to be face-to-face, giving rise to the need to identify and reflect on what led so many students to leave school during the emergency remote period, the lack of knowledge regarding digital platforms, scarcity of technological support from the government to students and the absence of guidelines to support pedagogical planning to face the pandemic period both in municipal and state public schools and in private ones. The methodology adopted was quantitative research that used data from the National Institute of Educational Studies and Research (INEP) carried out with 168,739 schools in the public and private networks. A form was applied to collect information about the situation and strategies adopted by schools between February and May 2021 during the second stage of the 2020 School Census. The results were transcribed into Microsoft Excel 2010 tables, divided between absolute and relative values, and compared to current literature. The results presented showed disadvantages between public schools compared to private ones in relation to the use of digital tools and even not using them. At the conclusion of the 2020 school year, most public schools extended the school day, revealing that what was proposed during remote teaching was not achieved until the end of the school year. As a conclusion, it was observed that social and economic inequalities stood out even more in education with the COVID-19 pandemic and the educational gap had more significant traits when it comes to students from the public school system, with the municipality of Barra do Garças was different from the general situation in view of what happened in the same period, mainly in municipal public education.