A Texas school district bans boys from wearing long hair. Now, some students are suing.

School officials in Texas forced a 9-year-old boy to serve an in-school suspension for a month, deprived him of recess and normal lunch breaks, and banished him from campus to an alternative school — all to pressure the fourth-grader into getting a haircut, a new lawsuit says.

Still, the boy refused to obey what he believes is an unjust school policy that bans boys from having long hair.