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Teacher Eliane |
These people, most of the time, are serving, I don't know if it's called a socio-educational sentence, and so these people have had... The Department of Education talks to us a lot about this and you end up thinking "Well, is it?" But you end up seeing that these are people who lack opportunities, financially speaking...not everyone!There are people who don't have this profile, but, in the great majority, YES [they do]. They need to work to maintain themselves, even though they are young, not yet of age. The elders, most of the time, they come for an INTERACTION WITH THE OTHER, there, many times it seems that they don't come... [They come] to learn how to read; for them, it will be a profit, [because] their life is made. What gets in the way a little bit is that this affectivity that we have, in Youth and Adult Education courses, I mean both the school management and teachers, also, because here, in Youth and Adult Education, we usually joke that we are more like mothers. And, when they get there, in high school, they [the school board] are the fathers. Because mothers, they have this feeling of welcoming, of forgiving and covering up mistakes. And, in this context, here, in Youth and Adult Education courses, it gets in the way a little bit, because, well... and, also, there is the work context, but, well, most of the time they [the students] don't arrive on time [+]. So, this disrupts the class a lot. And, because they are adults, they have free access to come whenever they can, so, many of them say they were working, but this flow of people coming and going disrupts our classes. So, this student is hardly a regular student, because, being an adult, again, being repetitive, but there is the family issue. Sometimes, it is not a 5th grade student, whose mother will bring him or her, but a student whose mother will leave her son at home, sometimes sick, or she won't come [to school]. So, this student has a context, he or she didn't come that day, you have to encourage him or her by saying: "Oh, come on, don't be discouraged! These are students that need a lot of motivation, a lot of push to finish [junior high school].
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