Violência dominada?: estudo de uma escola de ensino médio em Rio Branco-Acre

Abstract

The schooI in study is one of Midd1e LeveI (High SchooI) located in Rio Branco, capital city of Acre state. It shows a great preocupation with vioIence and affirms this does not exist there anymore. Such statement is true, if we take into account the school community's view on vioIence, which in case, refer, specifically, to the physical violence practiced mainly by students against their companions and teachers. In this sense vioIence does not bappen inside the school anymore, despite some isolated cases. It was possible to verify along the research that in arder to get this kind of control the schooI has developed a strict disciplinary scheme based on watching and punishing wherever physical violence is not admitted or tolerated, under the chatisement of transferring compulsorily~ every student who gets involved in a figth which ends up in injury. From then on, the students started using public space, out of the schooL principally on the square in front of it or at close quarrel to finish the quarrel they had begun inside the school, almost always ending up in physical aggression. Conceming other forms of violence, such as verbal or moral ones and preconception, they still exist inside the school. These forms of violence are solved by advertising the students or by suspending them from school but this has not been successfuL since they keep on breaking the roles. Despite all the control and discipline imposed to them they continue being aggressive and being injured by school mates or classmates or any other people that work in school