So that the child can start learning early, at 6 years of age, thus ensuring a school experience that is richer and has more learning opportunities. The goal is that the student be literate at 8 years at most and complete primary school by 14 years of age.

They claimed lack of resources - not just for technical education, but for education as a whole. The Cardoso administration, for example, passed a law (9.649 / 98) which effectively prevented the expansion of federal vocational education system. Lula and Dilma, in contrast, built more technical schools in 12 years than all previous governments in nearly a century, believing that a quality technical of education is essential for the development of a country. In most developed countries, for each university graduate there are ten high school-level technicians.

No. Young people, particularly black young people (the poorest of the poor) may have much merit as any other, but their chances of enrollment in a public university where the competition is very fierce, are much smaller. And why are they are less likely to get a spot? Is it because they are less intelligent? No. It is because they were not able to attend a high-level private schools, or pay for a good college preparatory course. Moreover, they are often unable to devote time to school because they have to work to help their families. The quota system creates an opportunity for the financially poorest students prove their merit. And they are proving so, with academic performance equal to or greater than the university students that are not on the quota system.