A adesão das escolas municipais de Belo Horizonte ao projeto de correção de fluxo – entrelaçando

Abstract

The topic of this paper discusses the commitment of the municipal schools of Belo Horizonte to the Flow Correction Project - Entrelaçando, which was implemented in 2010. It was developed for the Professional Graduate Program in Management and Public Education Evaluation of the Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora (Federal University of Juiz de Fora, MG) in order to obtain a master's degree. The project is aimed at students from eleven to fourteen years old, enrolled in the 1st or 2nd Elementary school cycle, and presenting distortion of two or more years of age, compared to age for each year of the cycle. Its main objective is the regularization of the school flow in order to enable the student to reach the 3rd cycle under the same conditions of their peers. However, a low participation of schools has been noticed which makes more than half of all target students unreachable. From 2010 to 2015, the percentage of student attendance from the Municipal Schools was no more than 38.9% in relation to demand. This research aimed to understand the reasons why a large proportion of school do not adopt this project. A case study through document analysis, questionnaires and semi-structured interviews as data collection instruments was completed. As sampling, it was elected one of nine regional administrative of Belo Horizonte, Regional Barreiro, being the regional third in number of schools, the largest in number of students and practice a floating service in the project, the low est of the municipal schools in 2015. The results of this study highlighted how it is difficult to ensure the development of a quality educational project to work with students marked by failure at school. The collected data highlighted the lack of knowledge about the Flow Correction Project, school resistance because of the difficulties in dealing with below grade level and on grade level middle school students being educated in the same classroom, the difficulty in building educational processes that has the ability to mobilize these students for learning and the challenge of the directors in finding the teachers with the desire to work with these challenging groups of students. Never the less, it is perceived belief in the importance of a specific project that guarantees the right to a quality education and correct the flow of students in age distortion. As a result of this study the analysis concluded, I propose an Educational Action Plan aimed at boosting the Flow Correction Project - Entrelaçando in Belo Horizonte Network of Education to ensure greater adherence of schools.