Digital exclusion, inequality and iniquity: essay about public education in a time of social isolation
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The objective of this essay is to propose a reflection on the implementation of the SP Media Center by the São Paulo State Department of Education as a way to guarantee education in the public network during the period of social isolation due to the COVID-19 pandemic. We argue that to privilege the use of digital platforms that require the possession of technological devices, such as smartphones, without, at the same time, offering such devices, is to ignore or completely disregard the reality of public school students, who in their great most are victims of social exclusion, of which digital exclusion is one of their forms. Such a measure violates the constitutional principle of equal conditions of access to public education, as it disregards the effects of inequality and exclusion, further accentuating social injustice and inequity.
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