Mason who went viral when passing college will not be able to take the course; understand

In the last week, Adenilton Pedreiro’s story went viral on social media. On Twitter, his daughter Sara Linhares shared the moment when her father received his approval for the philosophy course at the Federal University of Goiás (UFG).

“My dad all cute in his work clothes (he’s a mason) seeing that he went to UFG and is going to study philosophy. The first of his entire family to enter college”, said the young woman in the caption of the emotional video that has been going around the web in recent days.

My dad all cute in his work clothes (he’s a bricklayer) seeing that he went to UFG and is going to study philosophy 😭 the first in his whole family to go to college 😭 pic.twitter.com/zzFw0sQa8O

— Sara Linhares (Listen to my EP (@frozinhe) May 3, 2023

After much celebration from the family and Internet users, the family discovered that Adenilton could not attend university because he had applied through racial quotas, but had not completed high school in a public school.

Also on Twitter, the young woman shared a video of her father breaking the news and explaining what happened.

“Hey guys, it didn’t work… When I did my high school, I did it through the EJA [Educação de Jovens e Adultos] and in the rush to finish quickly for better job opportunities, I ended up doing the final step through private school. When enrolling, we use the racial quota and do not pay attention to the fact that for any quota it is necessary to have completed high school in public schools”, they explained.

However, Adenilton guaranteed that the dream did not die and that, despite being sad, he will continue to try.

It’s people, it didn’t work…
When I did my secondary education, I did it through the EJA and in the rush to complete it quickly for better job opportunities, I ended up doing the final stage at a private school.
When enrolling, we use the racial quota and do not pay attention to the pic.twitter.com/wFp1VYvoTx

— Sara Linhares (Listen to my EP (@frozinhe) May 4, 2023

How does the system work?

The quota law determines that half of the vacancies in public higher education institutions are allocated to candidates who studied the three years of secondary education in the public system.

The law also states that, within the percentage of vacancies reserved for students in the public education system, 50% must be for students with monthly family income equal to or less than 1 and a half minimum wage (currently equivalent to R$ 1,953), and the other half to the other families.

There are also vacancies for PPI candidates (self-declared black, brown and indigenous) that are reserved within each income bracket.

Since 2017, People with Disabilities (PcD) are also part of the vacancies related to the Quota Law.