--- title: Dress Code Protests: High School Students Riot Over Clothing Rules description: Texas students protest a school's dress code as rules about students' outfits continue to be more distracting than the outfits themselves canonical: https://time.com/104676/dress-code-riot-texas/ author: Eliana Dockterman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-05-19T16:46:20.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T08:55:19.240Z og:title: Texas Students Riot to Protest School's Dress Code og:description: Texas students protest a school's dress code as rules about students' outfits continue to be more distracting than the outfits themselves og:url: https://time.com/104676/dress-code-riot-texas/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Texas Students Riot to Protest School's Dress Code twitter:description: Texas students protest a school's dress code as rules about students' outfits continue to be more distracting than the outfits themselves twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # The Dress Code Wars Continue > Sponsored content. 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The kids who were sent home were told they could not stay in class for a range of violations: not wearing belts, forgetting their name tags, wearing the wrong colored shirt or having stubble on their faces. One student was even told that an official school spirit shirt was out of dress code because it didn’t have a collar. The crackdown led to a spontaneous mass protest at the school, [according to](http://www.myfoxdfw.com/story/25516642/duncanville-hs-sends-hundreds-home-for-dress-code-violations) Fox Dallas-Fort Worth. Hundreds of students, upset that they were tossed from school during critical review classes before finals, began turning over trash cans and yelling in the halls. Videos posted to social media show students chanting “f–k dress code,” yelling and starting a fight. Police had to be called in to restore order, though no arrests were made. Though the school argues that it has been enforcing dress code all year, students staged a sit in the day after the riot to protest what they say was an out-of-the-blue crackdown. A [Change.org petition](http://www.change.org/petitions/please-repeal-the-strict-dress-code-policies-of-duncanville-isd?utm%5Fcampaign=petition%5Fcreated&utm%5Fmedium=email&utm%5Fsource=guides) to repeal the dress code had 538 supporters as of Monday morning. The riot comes just months after [middle school students at a school in the Chicago suburbs protested their school’s rules against leggings](http://time.com/36997/when-enforcing-school-dress-codes-turns-into-slut-shaming/). Students and parents argued that teachers and administrators were unfair to tell girls to cover up rather than teaching boys not to objectify their peers. While school administrators maintain that girls wearing leggings will keep boys from paying attention in class or that boys’ chin stubble demonstrates a lack of respect for the learning environment, the protests against these rules are taking more time away from school work than any of these small infractions would. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/104676/dress-code-riot-texas/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/104676/dress-code-riot-texas/"},"headline":"The Dress Code Wars Continue","datePublished":"2014-05-19T16:46:20.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T08:55:19.240Z","description":"Texas students riot to protest the school's dress code as rules about students' outfits continue to distract","url":"https://time.com/104676/dress-code-riot-texas/","keywords":["Living","Education","Sex","dress code"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Eliana Dockterman","jobTitle":"Correspondent","url":"https://time.com/author/eliana-dockterman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/tag/time-section-living/","name":"Living"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/104676/dress-code-riot-texas/","name":"The Dress Code Wars Continue"}}]}] ```