The School Dropout in State High School in the Greater Bom Jardim Region

Abstract

The school dropout is defined as one of the INEP movement indicators, which refers to students who left to attend school before finishing school year without communicate their transfer formally. Its impact on the public education in Brazil at the Secondary Level reaches percentages that need to generate combat reflections against the problems. In Ceará, this problematic persists with greater emphasis on its capital, Fortaleza, and in this metropolis, Grande Bom Jardim was chosen as the study area, with a drive case in this paper: CAIC Maria Alves Carioca. Our study was conducted in 2014, under the following objectives: 1) to characterize the public policies related to school leavers, 2) describe the problem of school dropout in CAIC Maria Alves Carioca and 3) analyze the data relating to the school dropout at this education unit. Thus, the work develops discussions on the school dropout through categories revealed in interviews during the process, obtained from methods applied by: Gil (2010), Husserl (1992) and Yin (2001). Regarding to the theoretical part, we use thinkers who write about politics, public policy and public education policies as Arendt (2012) and Secchi (2013), as well as authors who have emerged in accordance with the categories found in interviews with our respondents, where among these are: Fox (apud CUNHA; COSTA, 2009), Macambira and Andrade (2013). Various websites and official documents were also used to support the research, because it is a work about public policy. The results found in our research led us to possibilities of discussions on school dropout, involving the variables that we consider key points of the research and a curricular discussion tied to it as a tool in the permanence of students in schools where courses can be created which also operate on social issues revealed in this study as well as a school approach with the people of their surrounding community.