<b>THE CONTINUOUS CASH BENEFIT PROGRAM AND THE DEMANDS OF PRODUCTIVE INCLUSION: SOME NOTES

Abstract

This study systematizes reflections on the effects of the BPC (Portuguese acronym for Continuous Cash Benefit program) and the Continuous Cash Benefit in School program in guaranteeing, to students receiving special education, access to an education of social quality, and their permanence on it. Using document analysis, census data is accessed to identify students with disabilities who live in extreme poverty in the state of Espírito Santo and in the city of Vitória and that are beneficiaries of BPC. The websites of the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics, the Inter-Union Department of Statistics and Socioeconomic Studies, the Ministry of Social Development and Fight against Hunger and the Ministry of Education and Culture were also accessed. In the analysis, it is observed that, historically, the school has occupied an important social role as an agency of implementation of social programs that ‘discover’ the poor and disabled, conforming them to a citizenship produced by a specific bourgeois ethos. The BPC is understood as a right to social protection, that should be based on human dignity. As the BPC, the Continuous Cash Benefit in School program must be committed to the guarantee of rights to basic education, and not at the service of the productive inclusion of students with disabilities, in which access to work/jobs overcomes the access to knowledge historically accumulated by mankind.