SCHOOL DROPOUT IN BASIC EDUCATION AND NECROPOLITICS

Abstract

Bearing in mind that school dropout is one of the processes of exclusion of black people in today's society, the article discusses the relationship between school dropout in basic education and the phenomenon of necropolitics, with the hypothesis that dropout is part of a larger political project of extermination of black lives, being a structuring element of the current economic system. The bibliographic essay method is used with a qualitative emphasis, supported by the studies of Mbembe (2018; 2017), Carneiro (2005) and complementary authors. It is noticed that the necropolitical mechanism separates lives between those that have value and those that have no value, as well as those that can be discarded, and this factor is crucial to segregate and remove students from school, more broadly those from public schools. It is concluded that black children and young people are removed from school due to the need for subsistence in the absence of public policies capable of guaranteeing the presence of these subjects in school, whereas they are considered as enemies of the social order, thus putting them in the crosshairs of death.