When Bolsonaro took over the presidency in 2019, the new government sold the idea that the Ministry of Education would be the ideal place in the public machinery for an entirely new administration to emerge. Chaos was not absent.
Today, nine months before the end of the period, it seems that the new may be something very old. Generally, news about MEC appears in the Education section. Ideological extremism pushed the ministry into the policy department. Now, the dossier, attacked by the lobbyists and the priests of the center representatives, has taken over the pages of the police.
Lack of materials was not the reason why the Bolsonaro administration failed to innovate in Education. The result of Pisa, the international student assessment program, came out in December 2019, the end of the first year of government. It revealed the origin of national backwardness.
Four out of ten 15-year-old Brazilian students do not understand what they read, do not know how to do basic math, and do not understand basic science concepts. No country comes to a disaster of this magnitude by accident.
The test, which was closed in 2018, before Bolsonaro’s arrival at Planalto,In a ranking of 79 countries, Brazilian students ranked 20 worst in reading, math and science. Indicators have been stagnant for ten years.
Abram Weintraub, then Education Minister, was interested in emphasizing two points. He said Pisa was not referring to the Bolsonaro government. He declared that the PT was 100% guilty and that it was “leftist brainwashing”. Clarifying where the right-wing theories of the new government would take Education was lacking.
Under Bolsonaro, the thesis that education problems would be solved in three steps was sold out: the education of the educator Paulo Freire, the rectification of left-wing presidents, and the expulsion of gender communism from the classrooms. ideology in education It is the longest path between a project and its realization. Pastoral bribes and overpriced auctions, war culture is driven by a fuel that all ideologies envy: money.
The new tour of Pisa, the international student assessment, should have closed last year. The pandemic delayed the study to this 2022. Brazil will again appear in an annoying situation. Country used to shame.
source: Noticias
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