Direito à educação: um estudo sobre a realidade educacional de haitianos na rede pública de ensino em Goiânia

Abstract

The current research intends to analyze the access and permanence of Haitian students in the public school system in Goiânia, what public programs are implemented in the school system to provide a welcoming atmosphere in practice, understanding education as an inalienable right, from pre-school to the Adult Education Modality (YAE). Based on a documental investigation of the State and Municipal Education Departments, and on the context of the public system of Goiânia, it was possible to compare the demands of the school reality that welcomes Haitian students and the discourses of the departments, which reported excellence in offering public services to these immigrants. It was observed in both state and municipal education departments a disinterest in implementing an effective program to welcome Haitian students. The only program that is implemented by the Inclusion, Diversity and Citizenship Management of Goiânia is exclusively for Venezuelan students and in school practice, the teachers are the only ones held responsible for the school failure and the Haitian abandonment. It is truly discouraging for the student to register in a school where all his previous knowledge is ignored, where there is a total unknown of his student background, language, and culture. We have cited examples of successful educational practices in other Brazilian cities, but we do not want them to be a role followed, but an alternative, a possibility of another form of reception. Finally, based on successful educational practices implemented in other Brazilian cities, we not tried to delineate a strict model to be followed, but specially alternatives to the reception of immigrants in the public school system.