EL PASO, Texas -- The family of a 14-year-old girl is outraged she got in so much trouble over the color of her hair.

Denise Guerrero was told she had the weekend to change her hair back or she'll have detention for the rest of the eighth grade.

You would think adding highlights to one's hair is harmless, but at Desert Wind School a student can get in-school suspension or SAC for doing it. For Guerrero it means no more soccer.

"If it's not painted before Monday, you're not going to school anymore," Guerrero explained what her assistant principal had told her.

The Desert Wind handbook outlines the dress code for the school; students are not allowed mohawk styled hair, no colored hair, no makeup and hair must be combed away from the face.

"She sees other people with highlights or with painted hair or mohawks and she doesn't tell them anything. I don't think that's fair," said Guerrero.

At Desert Wind school, KFOX cameras didn't see students with mohawks but did see a student who was violating the dress code. Fourteen-year-old Joe Esparza wears his hair combed forward.

"You have to get it out of your eyes," said Esparza. "When they tell you to get it out of your eyes, how do you do it," asked the KFOX reporter. "I just go like that," said Esparza moving his bangs to the side.

KFOX took the issue to Socorro Independent School District Assistant Superintendent Pat O'Neill. He explained the district policy allows for campuses to establish more stringent guidelines for their schools. He explains the reasoning behind the no-colored-hair rule:

"I would assume they feel like when you start allowing students to color their hair that could become a distraction for the school," said O'Neill.

Guerrero doesn't believe her hair is a distraction. She's a student who wants to learn, loves sports, gets good grades and stands up for what she thinks is right.

"She can put me in SAC for the rest of the school year. I won't go to my prom, I won't go to my field trip and I won't go to my soccer games," said Guerrero.

Guerrero's parents have had two meetings with school administrators but they still disagree with the school's policy.