SCHOOL FAILURE AND MEDICALIZATION

The article seeks a reflective analysis about the problem that presents itself in Basic Education in face of the learning problems that some children have. Inadequate responses on the part of students to pre-established standards at school, regarding content and methodological procedures, make them to be considered students with learning difficulties, culminating in school failure and incessant search for diagnoses in the medical field. Professional performance in face of the indicated situations was experienced as a school failure, which was revealed by the numerous referrals of students to medical care, to the Municipal Center for Assessment and Special Education, in the municipality of Fazenda Rio Grande, Parana.