This paper has the goal to contribute to critical reflections around the educational processes developed in Brazil. Therefore, this research conducts analysis that lead to the understanding that the brazilian educational system legitimates students' selectivity and failure by a meritocratic and excluding evaluation system, which relates to the capitalist society. Furthermore, we propose a favoring to the comprehension of the relations between structural problems involving poverty, racism, and job market segmentation and the country's educational disparity increase, making an articulation with the Covid-19 pandemic impacts to the brazilian population's scholarity. Finally, an eye is directed to the brazilian youths, with the intent of understanding the current pandemic context impacts to the scholar and professional paths of this population's segment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]