Gestão escolar militarizada: uma análise jurídico-administrativa do caso do Tocantins

Abstract

The militarized school managment has as one of its main justifications the aspiration for discipline. Currently, there are 15 public schools managed according to Tocantins’ style, of which 3 arose from the National Program of Civic-Military Schools. This study aims to verify if the normative and adminstrative structures of the Tocantins’ militarized public schools comply with the constitutional and legal principles of the basic education in which they are inserted. Therefore, it is intended to expatiate about the educational law, to address the militarization phenomenon and to verify the schools organizational structures, that is, how the military insert themselves in them, besides contrasting the normatives and school structure with the Federal Constitution of 1988 and with the Brazilian Education Guidelines and Bases Law. It is used the dialetics methodology and the qualitative and exploratory approach, since it is mainly used documentary, bibliographic and case study research. It is noticed that the military assume a leading role in the school system, occupying positions of coordinators and principals, and that the rigidity and traditions presented in the barracks are transplanted to the institutions, in order to violate or restrict, in certain situations, freedom of speech, intimacy and private life of the students.