This research addressed the problem of disciplinary procedures in one of the quality schools in the city of Medellin: the Educational Institution Institucion Educativa Francisco Miranda. The sample was taken in the grades 7th and 8th. This school is located in the comuna 4 (Aranjuez), a district where cataloged media-low class people live. The research question was: how does the school do sanctions to students today at the quality school Institucion Educativa Francisco Miranda in Medellin City in grades 7th and 8th at the same time, this question has been done in a social context when parents and teachers wonder why the punishments to scholar children and teenagers are not effective. The research methodology was qualitative-historical-hermeneutic paradigm, with a specific focus or technique of psychoanalysis research: the evidential paradigm, an approach formalized by the historian CarloGinzburg. The results show the ways to sanction students y this educational context today. Also, they show the difficulties which teachers have to face as representations of law. © Revista Colombiana de Ciencias Sociales.