This paper aims at showing the concealed forms that the neoliberal public policies implemented in order to reduce the economical, social and political costs of the objective forms of exclusion (repetition and desertion). Without modifying the essence of school selectivity, they created a field of subjective exclusion (auto-exclusion, exclusion between cycles, "trilhas de progressão continuada differenciadas"), in which the very person excluded is responsible for their exclusion. Three theses are presented in an attempt to understand this movement. The first one deals with the conversion of the objective exclusion into subjective exclusion. The second one shows how the mechanisms of informal assessment function to create "trilhas de progressão continuada diferenciadas" in the organization proposals by cycles of continued progression. Finally, the last one pinpoints the "deresponsibilization" of school with regards to the schooling of the lower classes ("learn to learn"), in the wake of the "deresponsibilization" of the very minimal State proposed by the current public policies. Finally, by contrast, the author presents some elements for an alternative policy directed to the training responsibility of school; elements aimed at transforming the relationship among people and between them and nature.
Public policies; Subjective exclusion; Informal assessment; Continued progression; "Deresponsibilization"
