REPETÊNCIA E EVASÃO ESCOLAR DE ADOLESCENTES EM RIBEIRÃO PRETO-SP: uma primeira abordagem

Abstract

According to several authors many causes may lead to repetition and school evasion. When we developed the theoric-practical teaching of our discipline named Child’s Health in the schools linked to the PROASE (School Health Assistance Program), we faced such problems. From in a first approach, we decided to study this question, with adolescents from the seventh grade of those schools (official and private schools), in the year of 1995, to detect possible causes that contribute for repetition and school evasion in our city. The methodology used in this study was the social stratification, and in this way we grouped the schools as: needy, mixed, standard and private, according to the children who attended the schools. After the stratification we choose a school of each group aleatorily, and we interviewed the repeating students and visited the evaded students. According to the results, we found that the major cause of repetition and school evasion in our research was the need to work and help the family earnings, and that the students were not interested in learning.