This work investigates how, in the contemporary school, the standard is an instrument that produces effects on the bodies. The main theoretical contributions are Foucault (2006, 2014), Deleuze (1992), Dussel and Caruso (2003), Cervi (2010), Passetti (2003) and Veiga-Neto (2014). The post-critical perspective was used as a theoretical-methodological strategy. Field research was carried out at a municipal school in the state of Santa Catarina, in 2015. The instruments of data production were: photographs, a field diary and the Political-Pedagogical plan of the institution. It is inferred, based on the data produced, that the standard compares, differentiates, hierarchizes, homogenizes, evaluates, excludes, defines, marks the deviations, the limits, the abnormal, and corrects the body. Although the device continues to discipline, and control, this school has managed, and is managing to be another school within itself; inventive, resistant, where friendship and caring for one another are established in small moments of everyday life.