Students are prohibited from bringing manuals home so as not to write them

Parents and directs criticize the law, which requires the return of the 3rd and 4th years manuals without taking into account how manuals are designed. There are schools that already prohibit students to take the books home.

The mandatory reuse of school manuals in the 3rd and 4th years continues to generate criticism from parents and principals, who advocate the need to change the law.

Mariana Carvalho, president of the National Confederation of Parents (Confap), denounces that there are schools that prohibit students to take the manuals home or require them to fill the exercises to pencil to allow reuse. On the other hand, some schools allow the full use of manuals, creating disparities between establishments, reports the.

The obligation of return applies to students in the 3rd and 4th years, unlike those of the 1st and 2nd years, which can maintain the books. The law determines that families that do not return the manuals in good condition can be required to pay them or lose the right to vouchers for the following year. However, the characteristics of books, which include exercises, paintings and cutouts, make their reuse virtually impossible, according to directors and Confap.

Filinto Lima, president of the National Association of Directors (Andaep), and Manuel Pereira, president of the Association of School Leaders (Ande), argue that the manuals They were not conceived to be reused.

With reuse rates “practically null”, the books end up sent for recycling due to lack of space in schools. For both, the situation reflects a legal contradiction, since the law provides for the return, but does not consider the practical characteristics of the manuals.

During the pandemic, families were dismissed to return the books, and by 2022, all 1st cycle students received new manuals. However, in the last school year, many families had to PAY UNPRUDED MANUALS To get the vouchers, leading to hundreds of complaints to Confap.

CONFAP is awaiting the publication of a diploma that exempts students in the 3rd and 4th years of the obligation to return. Since 2016, the free manual program has benefited millions of public education students, but reuse in the 1st cycle continues to be the subject of controversy.