A school in Northern Texas is in hot waters after students complained they were forced to undergo underwear inspection.

Reports said about 20 students at the Gustine Elementary in Gustine, Texas were ordered to partially strip Monday, after feces were found on school grounds.

Like Us on Facebook

Boys and girls were brought to separate rooms, as they were ordered to "pull down their pants" to find any evidence of defecation,  said Maria Medina, whose 11-year old daughter Eliza was searched.

"I felt uncomfortable, and I didn't want to do it," Eliza told local media. "I felt like they violated my privacy."

"I said I didn't want to, but I was told I had to because all the kids had to," she added.

"I was so furious," Medina said, adding that any act of pants-dropping is unacceptable. "If you can't do your job or you don't know what you're doing, you need to be fired. You shouldn't be here," she added.

The school admitted that strip searches are inappropriate, but defended their act, saying students were only requested to lower their pants a bit.

Eliza, however said it went far enough. "Like... to where your butt is," she said.

Eliza's mother insists that having kids line up to go through underwear inspection is simply unacceptable.

"Wrong is wrong," Medina said.

Superintendent Ken Baugh of Gustine Independent School District backed students and parents, saying making kids drop their pants would be going too far.

"That's not appropriate, and we do not condone that," he said. "So you would take disciplinary action."

Baugh hopes to finish his investigation by Wednesday.

Parents, meanwhile, plan to troop to the school Thursday to formally raise the complaint.

Tagsunderwear inspection, Texas