High School Curriculum Base can be changed by MEC

The National Common Curricular Base (BNCC) for Secondary Education must be amended by the Ministry of Education. The information was passed on by the holder of the Pasta, Rossieli Soares, on a visit to Rio Grande do Sul this Wednesday (18).

Soares did not detail what the planned changes to the BNCC would be. He only informed that “The Common National Base measure that the government delivered to the National Council of Education is not an immovable version. […] Therefore, we have public hearings and the council and the ministry also receive suggestions from various areas of society”.

During visits to two schools in Novo Hamburgo, Rossieli Soares admitted that secondary education has been “slippery” because it does not add to young people. Thus, many students have dropped out of school due to lack of interest, a situation that has become a fundamental debate for Brazil.

The minister commented that the basis may be approved this year. The importance of the document is that “it helps to point out a lot, especially what the states should discuss in the construction of their curricula after the common national base is homologated", he stressed Rossieli.

Through a note, the Ministry of Education confirmed the possibility of changes, confirming that the BNCC will be discussed in public hearings. So far, the points to be modified have not yet been defined, but the document is still under discussion.

The intention is that, as soon as it is approved by the National Council of Education (CNE), the BNCC will be forwarded to the MEC for approval by its holder by the end of 2018.

What is the National Common Curricular Base (BNCC)?

The BNCC had its final version delivered to the CNE in early April and it is the second stage of the guidelines for what will be taught in school institutions across the country. The first stage was the finalization of the base applied to kindergarten and fundamental education.

The treaty at the BNCC should be implemented by 2020 and, in the view of the MEC, increases the possibility of choice for students, giving a national standard to the curricula. However, this is not the analysis made by experts heard by the G1 portal.

According to them, the way the BNCC was designed for secondary education increases inequality between states. This is because the final text does not present the skills that should be taught in the proposal, as was done in elementary school.

Thus, the absence of these data may lead states to adopt different paths in their curricula, increasing the differences between Brazilian schools.