School dropout in the context of the pandemic:

desires, anxieties and expectations in the speech of students at the State High School Olindo Flores da Silva

Abstract

This article aims to understand the behavior of students at the Olindo Flores da Silva State High School, located in the municipality of São Leopoldo, part of metropolitan region of Porto Alegre, in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, during the new coronavirus pandemic, in 2020, when classroom courses were suspended and remote learning was adopted. For this purpose, the data were produced through an online questionnaire available to students at the school on the Google Classroom platform and in the instant messaging groups of the Whatsapp application. It is a qualitative case study, whose responses from students will be weighted through discursive textual analysis. The effects of the pandemic were felt by all sectors of Brazilian society and the routine of schools was substantially affected. In this emergency context of implementation of remote education, a complex scenario is glimpsed, whose less favored actors end up being excluded from the educational process. The pandemic is one of the opposing forces that added to other factors, external and internal to the school, can increase school dropout, especially in high school.