This week contained what I can only describe as historic events for this petition. On Wednesday, August 19th, I, Valeria Requena released a petition against “Humble ISD’s sexist dress code”. Not only Creekwood Middle School but many schools across Humble ISD have experienced dress code inequality. Whether it’s between genders or body types, this district has always struggled with enforcing the dress code in an appropriate manner.
In the 2026-2027 school year, the school announced that they start enforcing dress code on Thursday, the 20th. Students received no form of warning that the dress code would be any different from previous years. As the doors of Creekwood Middle school opened on Thursday, 50 girls piled into the office for dress code before the first bell had even rung. About 100 more girls got dress coded throughout the day. As a 7th grader attending Creekwood, I’m proud to say this is unacceptable. This “trivial” dress code which had been the source of many problems before this incident- now more than ever has been an issue. Especially since out of those 150 students not a single boy got dress coded. Even worse, a couple girls have been told they couldn’t wear certain clothing since “they were too curvy.” The fact we have to protest against these comments is absolutely disgusting. These horrible remarks are what sparks insecurity in young girls that they carry with them through life. Absolutely sickening.
Many girls face this problem because they’re not sure what is acceptable to wear: tight shorts are dress coded, baggy shorts are dress coded, leggings are dress coded- Where does it end? Frustrated with this injustice, girls from a variety of grades decided to protest- in a meaningful way.
Since it was apparent boys did not face any punishment for dress code, girl decided to dress like boys. Still in these clothes, girls faced unfair treatment. As was mentioned before, girls are struggling to understand what IS allowed since this dress code is being seen as quite hypocritical. In contrast to the many girls dress coded on Thursday for their shorts being too tight/short, on Friday, girls got dress coded for their shorts being too baggy. This is also quite unexpected this the official Humble ISD Dress Code doesn’t contain, nor cover the word shorts. These claims about their baggy shorts causing trouble is nothing but shocking since not a single boy got dress coded for the same reason.
Within these two days the petition against this dress code skyrocketed. After all the backlash Creekwood Middle faced online (through dozens of angry parents) the news of this petition spread around this small town like wildfire. Parents of students from Creekwood, Kingwood, Riverwood Middle School, even Kingwood Middle School knew about and supported this petition against this mismanagement. What started as a single girl getting sent to the office over her bare shoulders, was now a petition with about 500 signatures. Anywhere you go you would hear someone talking about this petition. Your local grocery store, the pizza place, sports practice- all anyone cared about was this petition. A Creekwood student even claims she saw the very same woman who dress coded her discussing their “little petition”. Parents of Creekwood students got sent the petition from parents of Riverwood students only to find out- the Creekwood student was helping make the petition. This kind of growth is what it takes for a small petition to go 1. in Houston Education.
Right now, this petition has about signatures online and about 100 on paper. We need 1,000 for it to be taken into notice. Never, did we think this petition would go this viral in 4 days. This is what our district, city, even state needs. Change. Be the change.
Protest with us. Spread the word. Sign for change.
“Educate your sons before you limit your daughters.”