This article is a report of our experience as researchers in Community Psychology involved with a project entitled "Lower Classes Adolescent's Free Time: Well-being or Risk Behavior?" The presentation and discussion of its results incited us to investigate the connection between University and Public Schools. The meeting of these two territories established a propitious space to discuss subjects such as: the control of students by the institutions; the passivity of students concerning their own personal choices; the discomfort of the school in face of changes, that may challenge its authority and power; and the expressions and attitudes of these adolescent's once they're included in the practice of contemplation.
reports of experience; free-time; school research