Fashionably ripped and torn jeans won't cut it at Bellevue East High School. A crackdown on dress code violations has been sending kids home from school to change.

Many teenagers like Chelsea Dean don't see a problem with a few small holes in her pant legs.

"On your knees? How is that distracting during class?" she asks. "What they've done over the last four days is way more distracting."

What school officials have done is crack down on dress code violations. Warnings were issued earlier in the week and on Friday there were calls to parents and trips home for clothes that fit the code.

Sondra Luszcak was irate. She says her straight-A student son missed three classes when she had to bring him home to change.

Sondra says, "On the way out, I saw three girls in miniskirts, an orange Mohawk and piercings. But I had to take my son home to change. If he's disrespectful, sure. If he's truant, sure. But not for a hole in his pants."

School administrators say they're just making sure students follow the rules.

Bellevue Assistant Superintendent Jeff Rippe says, "There has to be a good learning environment, an appropriate learning environment. We can't have distractions. We feel some dress code issues do become distractions."

Some students might say having to go home and change during the school day is more distracting than going to class in ripped up jeans and Jeff Rippe says, "That's correct. That won't happen every day. If this continues, it'll be a different matter and we'll have to address that."

Several students told us that the school will have to address it because they still intend to wear their ripped up jeans.

Chelsea Dean says, "I know many people have gone and spent Christmas money on jeans like this. Parents, like my mom, bought a pair of ripped jeans, just rips, not holes and I was asked to change."

The school handbook says clearly that ripped or worn out clothing is not appropriate to wear at school.

Administrators say they're just standing firmly behind the rules.

Some students admit that there was a loosely organized effort to test the school's resolve after the warnings were issued. Some brought clothes to change into anticipating that they'd be asked to get rid of the holy jeans.