IS THE EVALUATION CAUSES SCHOOL FAILURE?

School failure is a widespread phenomenon in many schools of Latin America. And it is the school who is responsible for making this problem public, for making it visible, since it goes beyond the walls of the educative institution, and it is rooted in the social, economic and cultural reality of the country. The evaluation culture, present in every educative institution, conforms strategic patterns that either hinder or enhance school failure. In this paper, we identify a few key features of the before mentioned cultures that encourage paths towards failure. We then present a brief reflection on each one of them. However, this phenomenon cannot be understood completely just considering the educative environment. It is necessary to broaden the insight into the educative and social system in which the school is inserted. This is why, in the final proposal, we claim that in order to answer the multiple questions that arise from the approach to this problem, we need not only to elaborate different answers, but to access to new places from where we can look, without forgetting the actual points of contact with ethics and politics.