LAKELAND, Fla. – Parents of students at Lawton Chiles Middle Academy are speaking out against a plan by the local parent-teacher association to create a “food hierarchy” in the school lunch line through donations to the organization.

The Parent Teacher Student Association at Lawton sent included slip sent out with orientation materials that solicited donations to the PTSA, parent Chris Stephenson posted to Facebook on Wednesday.

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For $50, sponsoring families or businesses were to receive their name on the school’s website, and for $100 their children would have received a “front of the lunch line pass” that would have allowed them to skip past their classmates, The Ledger reports.

“The last thing middle schoolers need is establishing a food hierarchy,” Stephenson posted. “They have enough problems as it is.”

Stephenson, whose sixth-grade son attends Lawton, elaborated on his frustrations for Bay News 9.

“Polk County has got a very high rate of food insecurity when it comes to kids. With middle school being already a contentious age with hormones and everything else, the last thing you want to do is add like a food hierarchy on top of that by saying my dad has more money than you, I get to eat first. You have to wait,” he told the news site.

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“They only have about 20 minutes to eat as it is,” Stephenson said. “Who allowed unapproved documents to be distributed to 300 some odd students without having read it? Somebody messed up big somewhere and that’s what needs to be addressed.”

Stephenson’s post enraged several parents and caught the attention of Polk County School Board member Billy Townsend, who also posted about the special privileges online. The notice to parents also included a $250 “Family or Business Sponsor” that would have granted the buyer the website advertisement, the “front of the lunch line pass,” as well as “2 premium seats at concerts and awards ceremony.”

Lawton principal Brian Andrews told Bay News 9 the solicitation went out to about 600 families before he learned about it Wednesday night.

“I was really not happy,” he said.

“We don’t want any kids feeling like second class citizens,” he said. “That’s on my as the principal so ultimately, it is my responsibility what goes out to the kids. Again mistakes were made, but I think how the mistakes are recovered are important. And we did recover.”

WPLG reports the PTSA blamed the ordeal on a “clerical error.”

“We strive to look for new and innovative fundraising ideas to enhance the school experience for our students. We offer a variety of fundraising options for our students and families to choose from each year. This Family and Business Sponsorship program was explored, but we decided to not implement. Due to a clerical error, the form was inadvertently included in the orientation packets. Our families have been notified this program is not being offered. The intent of our PTSA is to always do the best for our students and families,” PTSA President Jil Bevis wrote in a prepared statement.

Folks online, of course, weren’t buying it.

“Liars,” Amber Graffin posted to Facebook. “They’re called on their BS and claim clerical errors? Cowards.”

“Agreed,” Stephenson responded. “I’m happy at the response of the principal. The PTSA president, however, had an absolutely pathetic response. Clerical errors are misspellings, not the distribution of hundreds of phamphlets.”