Short before filming begun, director Del Rangel was fired for unknown reasons and was replaced by Reynaldo Boury.

During its first week, the soap opera reached in his first chapter, an average of 13.4 points in São Paulo, vice leadership in fourteen capitals and vice in general the Panel National Television (Brazil), leveraging the audience station that the time was between 5 points.

The author of the serial, Iris Abravanel, commented that despite the remake being produced in the 2010s, the bullying would be one of the main topics to be addressed, so that would be the core of the black and poor Cirilo Rivera and his passion for snob Maria Joaquina. She said that this topic would be good for the spectators become aware of racism in the twenty-first century.

Although SBT credits this as a remake of Carrusel (1989) only, several aspects such as the schoolchildren uniforms, the teacher's romance with their music professor and the Principal's behavior and look are notably more reminiscent of ¡Vivan los niños! (2002), aired by SBT in 2003.

Actress 'Livia Andrade' auditioned for the role of the Teacher but Rosanne Mulholland was cast.