The Respect for fundamental rights in educational institutions: A challenge for the school pacific coexistence

Abstract

The paper is the result of an investigation which analyzed
how the Constitutional Court of Colombia has solved the
existing tensions between the fundamental rights of the
students and the school´s regulations. Therefore, the text
presents an analytical reconstruction of the case of law of
the Court referred to the normative within the schools.
It was used a theoretical frame that conceives the Law
as a constituent element of the social reality and, thus,
pretends to show the effect of “constitutionalización” of
the daily life that is implied by a series of decisions of
a high constitutional court.
The problematic situations
within the educative institutions are specially referred
to the students’ personal appearance, to the maternity,
paternity and conformation of family, to the consumption
of psychoactive substances, the sexual orientations and
to the procedure to investigate and sanction the faults.