2013-09-242013-09-242010-12-31ALVES, Amone Inacia. O que a chacina em Realengo tem a nos dizer: uma análise sobre os discursos da violência escolar no Brasil. Polyphonía, v. 21, n. 2, jul./dez. 2010. Disponível em: <http://www.revistas.ufg.br/index.php/sv/article/view/18979/11125>.2236-0514e-2238-8850http://repositorio.bc.ufg.br/handle/ri/1225v. 21, n. 2, jul./dez. 2010.The aim of this text is to analyze the process of how violence is produced, using texts from the mass media, on the episode which occurred on April 7, 2011, at the Tasso da Silveira Municipal School, in Rio de Janeiro. It starts from the assumption that the media set out to identify the violent situation experienced by the young people who died or saw many of their colleagues being killed, based on the causes, whose explanations are rooted in the emotional imbalance of the “killer”, in the psychological problems which he faced throughout his school career. We believe that underlying the discourse there is an ideological production which glosses over social relations, neutralizes class differences and legitimizes situations of power which the school has failed to confront.pt-BRViolência simbólicaSociedadeConsumismoEscolaArticle