CONDIÇÕES DO TRANSPORTE ESCOLAR RURAL E SUAS IMPLICAÇÕES NO RENDIMENTO DOS ALUNOS

Abstract

The present work seeks to investigate the conditions of rural school transport and the impacts generated on the student performance of students who live in the countryside and attend urban schools, pointing out the difficulties of accessibility and its relationship with school performance. Thus, we seek to understand the relationship between rural school transport and students' academic performance, pointing out the pertinent legislation to education, emphasizing the Federal Constitution 88, Law nº 9.394 / 1996 and the government school transport programs. The theoretical basis was through Martins (2010); Pergoretti (2005); Pinheiro (2013); GEITOP (1995); MEC (2007a) who helped to understand the importance of offering quality rural school transport, ensuring accessibility and the consequences for students' learning. We opted for a bibliographic review (SEVERINO, 2007) and a qualitative approach (MINAYO, 2002). Therefore, we found that school transport is the only way for students in the countryside to get to school and therefore it must be offered with quality, complying with all the determinations of the Brazilian traffic code; as for accessibility, the walk time from the residence to the point of embarkation / disembarkation and long distances, as well as the time of travel to school and road conditions, negatively interfere in educational performance, due to physical and mental exhaustion, and collaborate for school dropout; family support is extremely important for the individual to continue attending classes; school transport programs created by the federal government promote free access for rural students to urban schools.