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GRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) — The Oregon school that was the focus of outrage on Facebook over the tardiness punishment given to a 6-year-old boy says it won't be doing that again.



Lincoln Elementary in Grants Pass issued a statement Friday saying from now on, students being punished for chronic tardiness will do their catch-up work in a separate supervised room.



More than 115,000 people have shared the photo Laura Hoover posted on Facebook of her grandson Hunter sitting behind a cardboard screen eating his lunch alone while the other kids ate together.



The boy's parents, Nicole Gerloff and Mark Cmelo, told The Grants Pass Daily Courier (http://bit.ly/1wvDIK3) ) they got an apology from principal Missy Fitzsimmons on Thursday and were confident no more kids would be 'placed on display" like that again.



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