One teacher down
When you have an episode like this one:
A Portuguese Language teacher died this Friday (30th) inside the Jayme Canet Civic-Military State School, in the Xaxim neighborhood, in Curitiba. According to information from APP-Sindicato, Silvaneide Monteiro Andrade, 56, was called to the pedagogical team's room while teaching and suffered a heart attack. She was rescued but did not survive. Directors of APP-Sindicato went to the school on Friday afternoon. "The death of teacher Silvaneide has caused great commotion throughout the category, which has related the circumstances of the death to the pressures and working conditions we have been experiencing," said the union president, Walkiria Mazeto. "She was a Portuguese Language teacher, a subject that has demanded a great deal of interaction on platforms, with goals, which has resulted in pressure, harassment, and illness." According to teachers' groups on WhatsApp, Silvaneide was reprimanded for not meeting the essay goals set by one of the educational platforms adopted by Ratinho Júnior (PSD)'s government, which are the target of complaints from educators. Professor Paulo Vieira, who teaches Philosophy in the state network, recorded a video on Friday afternoon, in which he reinforces: "She had a heart attack inside the school, inside the pedagogy room, in front of a tutor. She was called to account because she wasn't able to handle the platform's essays and all these absurd demands that we suffer every day," said the professor.
You understand the wound that the military dictatorship caused in Brazil and the Brazilian people. One of the biggest of these wounds is this utilitarian-educational liberalism, where education is seen as an extension of the labor market (where there are goals and only what generates money/return is done).
The second is the eternal "hypothesis of will," where Brazilians believe that everything can be solved with discipline and willpower. Is your team doing badly? The players lack grit/passion/willpower or discipline. This is easier to see when people complain about Vinicius Junior's hairstyle, but this hypothesis permeates Brazilian culture. And it's no coincidence that coaches who tell you to live on R$400 a month are so successful. Military discipline, the militarized society, the idea that it's enough to deprive yourself of everything to achieve financial success.
The third wound is a more general problem and concerns global Nazi-Fascism and has taken root in capitalism like a tick on a cow in a pasture. The main idea that the (physical and mental) effort of work enriches the human being. This was written in the concentration camps of Nazi Germany. It is also from there that the social organization of education (the famous Prussian system) and labor (no, the CLT has no relation to Mussolini's carta del lavoro, that was a blunder by MBL) comes from, where rigid hierarchy, delimited functions, and zero space for innovation and questioning set the tone of personal relationships.
Of course, all these wounds only affect the poor. The C/D class. Because this is the class that needs to always be hostage to cultural dogmas (work, religion, education) that demand exclusive dedication to the cause of capital (being meat in the grinder). Millionaires and billionaires laugh while studying art, philosophy, and creating those who will be the products/companies that we will maintain in 10 years.
In the end, everything is a bourgeois project of power.
And no, the PT is not left-wing. It never was. And now it's almost right-wing (center-right), very reminiscent of FHC's PSDB. But the PT members don't want to talk about it.