What students, parents and teachers consider as the role of school in the public school system

Abstract

The present article intends to corroborate to the studies on educational policies of contemporary researchers (SANTOMÉ, 2001; SILVA, 2004; LINHARES, 2001, 2002; BOHN, 2000). These researchers believe the public school which we ‘want to’ should have been built in the one which we have already had. In addition to that, they affirm that government educational policies should guide proposals for a real democratic school and a fundamentally collective education. Through a survey with students, parents, and high school teachers of a public school in the Northwest of Paraná, it  is aimed to present what those involved understand as ‘role of the school’. This presentation will discuss the degree of influence of the government policies in the speech of students and how much the vision expressed by parents and teachers can tell about the position that the person occupies. In face of this, as result of a triangulation of the visions of the three groups participating in the search, it is enabled  the visualization of educational politics ‘productivist’, ‘profiteering’ and the pursuit of ‘invisibility’ of Governments.