LOS ALAMITOS, Calif. – Teachers in one southern California town recently devised a dubious fundraising scheme, but district administrators shut it down when parents complained that it’s morally reprehensible.

The “homework buyout” at Richard Henry Lee Elementary School in Los Alamitos offered to exchange a week off of homework if students’ parents donated $100.

A parent who asked not to be identified told ABC she was fuming when her son recently brought the flyer home from local Parent Teacher Association describing the bribe – a program called Project Leap.

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“$100 gets your child out of homework for a week!” the flyer read. “From now until Friday, Nov. 14th at 2:20 p.m., you can send in a $100 check for your child to participate.”

“I’m furious because I don’t have $100, first of all, to give to the school,” the unidentified parent said.

“I feel bad for my son because he was like, ‘Mon, can we do it?’ and I’m like, ‘I’m not going to let a teacher or a school bribe my kid and team him the wrong thing.

“It’s not morally correct to say, he give me $100 and you don’t have to do your work,” the mother said.

District officials were apparently oblivious to the buyout until ABC started asking questions, but superintendent Sherry Kropp agreed it’s not right.

“We love our fundraising groups and have amazingly supportive parents but we absolutely cannot raise money by having parents pay for having no homework for their specific student,” she said in a statement.

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School principal Roger Briggerman confirmed that the program was dead, “saying the fundraiser sends out the wrong message that academics have a dollar value,” ABC reports.

He said parents who sent in money will get a refund.

ABC did not report whether Briggerman or Kropp previously approved the scheme.