ABSTRACT
The Covid-19 pandemic caused sudden changes in the social, political, economic, and educational fields in Brazil and worldwide. One of the measures implemented is the shutdown of schools during physical isolation, which challenged them to assume distance learning on an emergency basis, mediated by digital technologies. In this sense, this article aimed to analyze how the school can fulfill its political and social function in the context of the pandemic crisis. From the methodological point of view, it is an exploratory study with a qualitative approach with secondary and empirical data from UNESCO. There was also a mapping of Brazilian states on the conduct of education during the coronavirus pandemic. The results indicate that the new coronavirus pandemic has had different implications for social life;emergency remote education implemented in most Brazilian states did not count on the participation of the school community.