A musty portrait of mismanagement (and misappropriation) of public resources, Brazil now has more than 1,200 day care centers and pre-schools stopped, pushing out of education, more than 2.5 million children, in the range of two to three years old, the majority, needy.
This sad conclusion is part of the survey carried out by researchers from the Getúlio Vargas Foundation (FGV), when they also point out that only 30% of children up to three years old were enrolled in the country, a level insufficient for the needs of the segment, but still higher than the 13% presented in 2010.
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Commenting on these results, the economist at the Brazilian Institute of Economics at the Getúlio Vargas Foundation (Ibre/FGV), Janaína Feijó, she recalls that “the national plan stipulated that municipalities and states should have 50% of children from zero to three years old in school. Currently, part of the states and municipalities are far from these established goals, in particular the states of the North and Northeast regions”.
However, it is from the Southeast that comes a classic example of social exclusion. In Itapevi, in the metropolitan region of São Paulo, four mothers who live on the same street face the difficulties of finding places for their young children.
Without having been able to place any of her four children in daycare, kitchen assistant Beatriz Cavalcanti says that the eldest of them has only just managed to reach kindergarten. “The teacher said that he is very late, because he had no contact with the school. He's in pre 2 and doesn't know anything. He's learning his lyrics now. He is very late, ”she repeats.
Sisters Andressa, Jersica, Beatriz and Talita face a similar situation, prevented from attending the municipal school located almost in front of the house where they live, as the teaching unit only serves children from four years old age. When contacting the three day care centers located within a radius of one kilometer from the children's homes cited, the report on the Jornal Floripa website received a laconic and repetitive response: there are no vacancies available.
Another example comes from Teresina (PI), where, for eight years, the community has been waiting for the completion of the municipal center for early childhood education. Another mother frustrated with the public lack of commitment, Rosilene confesses to having dreamed about her son, already studying at the institution.
Under construction since 2021, the Federal District's early childhood education center (with capacity for 396 children, in two shifts) also does not have a forecast for completion. Symptom of official neglect, the sign of the Government of the Federal District (GDF), which displayed the deadline for delivery of the building – May 14 of last year – was conveniently covered.
On the atavistic precariousness of the national preschool situation, the Ibre/FGV economist concludes: “we know that in Brazil there is a great challenge which is the quality of this school that involves recruiting quality professionals and maintaining the structure and also making this work structure. So we know that creating a day care center is just the first step on a long journey that Brazil needs to face”.
