In the article “Docile Bodies” from Discipline and Punish, Foucault explained how the state adapted the military technique to create certain characters and habits in other institutions. One of the institutions was the education system; Foucault described how teacher and masters inhibit physical actions in students. Till this day those physical actions are still acted upon in school. The school basically mode the students into what they thought was an adequate character to obtain. Delhi Charter School in Louisiana imposed a policy that stated no pregnant student can attend school and how students will be ask to take a pregnancy test. Students who are perceived to be pregnant are expected to take a pregnancy test without their own choice of doctor. Perceiving a student to be pregnant is discriminatory, in that case we may ask ourselves what type of girls are being perceive to be pregnant? According to the “School’s require girls to take pregnancy test” article, 70 percent of girls who have children have left the school due to discrimination. The policy explains how the Delhi Charter School has certain expectations for their student and certain character traits. It appears that students who don’t meet the criteria are put aside and forced to leave the school. The students are forced to leave the school because they are not treated like the other students. The American Civil Liberties Union stated that pregnant students shouldn’t be treated as people with disease but with a medical condition and should be involved as much as they can. The social media has an influence of how pregnant teenagers are perceived in society and how they disrupt the high standards of the education system. Students who don’t follow the disciplinary criteria are excluded and therefore consider deviant. The deviant behavior consider from the education system is translated through media communications to the public. As punishment the students are not adequate effort to the society. This effect builds a relationship gap between the educated and uneducated. The educated are the discipline students that form part of the state social structure. According to the article the Delhi Charter School “maintain an environment in which all students will learn and exhibit acceptable character traits that govern language, gestures, physical actions, and written words”, hence the students serve as puppets to the education system and unfortunately it has become part of the norm.
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