A evasão escolar no ensino médio: um estudo do caso da Escola Estadual de Ensino Fundamental e Médio Severino Felix de Brito

Abstract

The present work this is an exploratory study conducted to investigate the perception of students and teachers the reasons that cause truancy of EEEFM Severino Félix de Brito. In Brazil, truancy is a major challenge for schools and this is an issue that is still far from being resolved because the school dropout rates have increased every year, especially in high school. Data on truancy have attracted the attention of many researchers and educators, therefore, you must run incentive strategies to make students stay in school. It is known that truancy is usually caused by several factors, the most common among them are: economic, distant home from school, lack of school transport, lack of parental encouragement, pregnancy, difficulty of reconciling work with student study, problem found in the school, among others. This paper seeks to understand the reasons that cause truancy in respect of school, for it was made a school field research, where a questionnaire was administered to 150 students and high school teachers, then the data were collected, analyzed and so it was concluded that even with major advances in education the problem of truancy in high school continues, especially in the research school. However, the majority of respondents highlighted the socio-economic conditions as one of the main reasons that led to dropping out of school. Thus, it is necessary to formulate and insert a set of measures involving the school, students, parents and the state, thus enabling a reduction in that high rates of truancy