“…School diffi culties, including the history of repetition, favor the emergence of behavioral and emotional problems and can produce a lack of belief in the teachers, the parents and the students themselves regarding their ability to learn (Ingul, Klockner, Silverman, & Nordahl, 2012). Ortigão and Aguiar (2013) showed that students with low academic achievement are generally those who have experienced one or more episodes of school repetition. Similarly, studies (Alves, Ortigão, & Franco, 2007; Ban-Fernandes, L. M., Leme, V. B. R., Elias, L. C. S., Soares, A.…”