ESCOLA MERITOCRÁTICA

onde está a igualdade de condições para o acesso e permanência de todas as crianças e jovens na escola?

Abstract

This essay aims to address the perverse meritocracy that pervades Basic Education schools of the 21st century, especially in the private network, which underpin their ideological assumptions, their curricular models, their forms of assessment and their collective activities based on competitiveness, in the demonstration of competences, in the achievement of merits and in the perfor- mance of robust grades, otherwise they are invited, pressured or expelled from these spaces designed for “brilliant students”. Thus, we identify in the stories of mothers, fathers, guardians of children in school, many struggles, sadness, anguish and discontent with these schools when their children are just "normal children", potential to be great heroes of an almost always uncertain future, because the important thing, in this society of stupidity, is not to be ten in school, but to be ten in life. Learning to respect the other, to exercise the ethics of solidarity, to deal with adversity and differences and, above all, to learn that the School is a space where people (with) live with unique histories and potentials. Therefore, we want school managers to rethink their roles and actions with these children and young people, future men and women, who will take care of us elderly, old, elderly, also unique subjects.