The following study provides the results of the research conducted on risk practices taken by boys and girls in the school environment and how these influence in shaping their political subjectivity; this is why understandings around risk, context conditions and the way the institutional order is questioned, become specific concerns on which the study is guided.According with the aforementioned, the methodology outline was endorsed from an interpretativequalitative perspective of exploratory type that allowed recognizing the relationship between risk and political subjectivity in childhood and from there, the meaning and actions that take place not only from the school environment but within the framework of a post-modern society that affects reflections, intentions, decisions and tensions that within boys, girls, adults and institutions arise around the issue.