CANONSBURG, Pa. – A Pennsylvania lunch lady quit her job last week over a “disgusting” school lunch policy that’s leaving students with rumbling stomachs, and she’s now sounding the alarm on Facebook.

Stacy Meyers Koltiska resigned from Wylandville Elementary School last Thursday over a change in the district’s lunch policy for students with overdue accounts she describes as “lunch shaming,” KHOU reports.

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Koliska contends that Canon McMillan School District approved a plan over the summer to deny hot meals to students when their lunch accounts reach a debt of $25, and said she quit when she was ordered to enforce the policy.

Koltiska posted to Facebook:

This year Canon Mac implemented a new Rule 808.1. This rule states that any child who has a balance of $25 or more will not receive a lunch if they are in Grades 7 through 12. State law requires that children K through 6 must be given a lunch. In Rule 808.1 it says that children in K through 6 will be provided a “Sandwich” what You don’t know is that they are being given One Piece of Cheese on Bread. This isn’t even being toasted. Yet they are still being charged the FULL PRICE of a HOT LUNCH that is being DEINIED to them.

The first week of school on Friday, I had to take a little first grade boys chicken and give him this “cheese sandwich”. I will never forget the look on his face and then his eyes welled up with tears. I was going to resign on Monday but my mother passed away on Sunday so I forgot about it until yesterday when it happened again. I had the same sick feeling so today I resigned. What makes this even MORE SICKENING is that we throw so much food away EVERYDAY. So Our Children are being served cheese, being charged and denied the hot food that we then throw away. Once again, it comes down to Profits Over People but this time the People are Our Children.

Koltiska then encouraged parents to contact the district superintendent or director of business and finance over the policy change, NBC News reports.

“I’m not saying parents shouldn’t be held accountable,” Koliska said, “but I think there has to be a better way than involving the children.”

Superintendent Matthew Daniels defended the no lunch policy as an effective means of cutting down on lunch debt, which has gone from over 300 families owning between $60,000 and $100,000 a year to about 70 families owning less than $20,000, WTAE reports.

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“There has never been the intent with the adoption of this policy to shame or embarrass a child,” he said.

Koltiska’s Facebook post has been shared more than 6,800 times since she posted it last Thursday, and it’s clear most parents are furious about the no lunch policy.

“Shame on them,” Jen Nodianos posted.

“Horrible!” Chrissie Slebonick wrote. “What ever happened to no kid goes hungry? My daughter hates cheese and peanut butter so that means she would go hungry.”

“My daughter goes to canon middle school she has a bill of 403.00 and I don’t have that she was to get free lunch from school. I sent her to school with 10 dollars to eat a lunch they told her no she can’t eat lunch because she owes them money.. it makes me sick some kids that’s there only meal of the day and you are going to tell a kid no..,” Rue Durila added.