This monograph aims to investigate the closing process of the Escola Municipal São
Sebastião, located in the Ribeirão Grande II community. This district has a population
of approximately 450 people and is located in the rural area of the municipality of
Tocantinópolis-TO. Based on the provisions of Law 12.960/2014 (BRASIL, 2014) and
considering that since 2015 this school is closed, the purpose of the study is to
investigate and understand the main reasons that led the public authority to transfer
the Escola Municipal São Sebastião from the village of Pedro Isaias to the village
Chapadinha, in Tocantinópolis-TO, closing it later. This is a qualitative research,
characterized as a case study. As a methodological proposal for data collection and
generation, semi-structured interviews were conducted with community social actors,
being: 06 (six) ex-teachers, 06 (six) ex-students of the school, 06 (six) parents of the
students and the Secretary of Education of the municipality. We also collected
documents in the school-field and from the data provided by the research
collaborators they were treated using content analysis. The results showed that the
teaching unit in the village of Pedro Isaias was officially closed due to lack of
infrastructure and because it was built in an inappropriate place, besides not having
documentation of the land. These reasons caused the transfer of the building to the
village Chapadinha, since the Education Department of the municipality argued that it
was necessary to change to offer a quality education with an appropriate place for
students to study. Even with the transfer, on the contrary, the teaching offered to the
children in the new school building did not please the students as much as the
parents, because with the construction of the new building teaching began to be
offered in a single classroom, supporting garden students I and II, and 1st year to 5th
year in a single shift (morning), thus causing a precariousness of teaching in the
community. As a result, the school in Chapadinha was closed because of the way it
worked, because the parents do not see development of their children, they decide to
transfer them to study in schools located urban area, culminating in the closure of
this institution.
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