Poo On Gym Floor Sees Texas Elementary School Students Partially Strip Searched, Parents Express Outraged

Parents at a central Texas school district were infuriated after the school's staff forced elementary students to pull down their pants because feces were found on the gym floor.

The Gustine school were trying to find out how the poop ended up on the floor, so teachers took girls and boys into separate rooms so they could inspect each student.

The children were ordered "to pull down their pants to check them to see if they could find anything," Maria Medina told WFAA-TV.

Parents described the process as a partial strip search. About two dozen students were asked to drop down their pants.

"I felt uncomfortable, and I didn't want to do it," Eliza Medina, 11, said. "I felt like they violated my privacy."

Eliza's mom said finding feces on the floor does not justify the partial strip search of students just to find the culprit.

"I was furious... I mean, I was furious," Medina said. "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."

Eliza said she tried to protest: "I was told I had to because all the kids had to."

Superintendent Ken Baugh said he did not allow the search and that partially strip-searching the students went too far. "That's not appropriate, and we do not condone that," he said.

The district is already investigating the matter, said the superintendent.

However, Baugh said from what he understood early on into that, the children were told to lower their pants just a little.

Medina insisted it was more than that. "Like... to where your butt is," she described to WFAA-TV.

Her mother argued that having kids line up and expose their underwear for inspection is improper, even if were just a little.

"Wrong is wrong," Medina said.