PLAINVIEW, Texas – Texas mother Monica Esquivel is demanding answers after a school official scribbled on her son’s head with a marker because he didn’t like the boy’s haircut.

School officials told Esquivel her 11-year-old son Kobi’s haircut was a distraction, and possibly gang-related, so an assistant principal “fixed” the problem using a black marker. Kobi had worn the haircut – which features a shaved line where it’s parted and combed over – for about five months before the administrator took action last week without contacting Esquivel, KCBD reports.

“My son is not in a gang, he’s not trying to be in a gang,” Esquivel told the television station. “He dresses in khakis, a shirt, not in loose pants or anything, just real nice and casual.

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“He isn’t representing a gang or anything.”

School officials refused to discuss the incident, citing “confidentiality,” but did release a general statement about the district’s dress code, the Plainview Daily Herald reports.

“Our dress code prohibits designs shaved into the scalp and this includes lines,” Greg Brown, Plainview Independent School District’s executive director for administrative services, said in the release.

“The dress code is part of the Parent/Student handbook that is made available to all students online or in paper form (if requested).”

Brown outlined the process for changes to the student dress code, but wouldn’t discuss whether the assistant principal responsible for scrawling on Kobi’s head will be reprimanded. Instead, he issued yawning comments about communication with parents.

“I can’t comment on it, but I can tell you whenever we have a concern, Plainview ISD addresses those concerns with our administration and our staff and our students,” Brown said, according to the Daily Herald. “Any concerns or practices that affect our kids will always be addressed. We encourage parents to communicate with use whenever concerns arise.”

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Esquivel told KCBD she’d like school officials to address what she believes is the wrong interpretation of the dress code.

“ … (W)hen I got copies of the dress code, on there it says designs shaved through the head, but I said it’s not a design, it’s the haircut. The style that’s coming out is the comb over,” she said.

She also believes the rules are becoming overbearing.

“They’re expecting, you know, the kids, they get distracted on stuff, but it’s starting to become where everything is a distraction to them,” Esquivel told KBCD.

Esquivel said officials agreed to give her son time to grow out his hair, but she’d still waiting for an apology for the assistant principal’s inappropriate behavior.

The Daily Mail reports the Plainview marker incident is not the first time a school employee has overstepped their authority to punish a student for their hairstyle.

A school counselor at Harns Marsh Middle School shaved the head of student Danny Valdes last January because the 11-year-old’s hair cut was supposedly too distracting. Valdes’ step-father owns a local barbershop and shaved the Miami Heat logo into the boy’s head, along with the Miami skyline. He received the special haircut to celebrate his favorite team when they attended his first game the weekend prior to the incident.

“I wanted to get my hair like that to show how proud I am of my Heat,” Danny told NBC 2.