ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. – A Florida principal faces disciplinary action over an email to staff suggesting that “white students should be in the same class” when compiling class lists for next school year.

Campbell Park Elementary Principal Christine Hoffman’s “Class list Guidelines” tasked teachers with creating class lists for next year that achieve a mix of students from different reading levels, with no more than two troublemakers per class. The email, sent out Tuesday, also asked that teachers create classes with an equal number of boys and girls, and noted that “white students should be in the same class,” the Tampa Bay Times reports.

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The predominantly black school has 606 students and only 49 of them are white – less than 10 percent per grade level. A total of 20 students at the school are Hispanic, 18 are multiracial, and three are Asian.

Within days, the NAACP Florida State Conference received copies of Hoffman’s email, which president Maria Scruggs initially thought was a prank.

“I’m not usually at a loss for words, but I can tell you when I saw that email for the first time, I thought it was a joke,” Scruggs told the Times.

Two days after the email, Hoffman sent another to apologize for using “poor judgement” in the first email.

“I would like to follow up on my meeting with teachers Tuesday regarding class lists and the poor judgement I used in an email that went to all our teachers and paraprofessionals,” she wrote, according to WNCN. “In taking time to reflect on my actions, I felt it was important to write all of you and share my thoughts. I made a mistake, and I am sorry.”

The next day she sent a note to parents to clarify her comments.

“The guidelines included a statement on assigning white students together, and I explained in the meeting that I was asking that there not be a class with only one white student,” she wrote. “I was not asking that all white students in each grade be clustered, as that is not our practice in creating lists. I understand how racially insensitive the guideline was.

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“The NAACP has reached out to Pinellas Co. School Superintendent Dr. Michael Grego concerning this matter.”

“As a white woman leading a predominantly black school,” she wrote, “I am approaching this as an opportunity to learn.”

Scruggs, however, didn’t seem satisfied with the principal’s apology.

The initial email “rings that it was a very comfortable thing for her to do,” Scrugs said.

“It appeared she was doing it for some kind of protective measure is what it came across,” she said. “That’s a bigger issue if that was the case.”

Scruggs told WFLA the apology was “totally unacceptable, because I wasn’t sure what she was apologizing for.

“I wasn’t sure if she was apologizing for getting caught,” she said. “What we won’t accept is an apology and an expectation that, ‘okay now we’re all fine and we’ll just move forward.’”

Parents at the school, however, seem fine with that.

“When I heard it, I definitely thought the wording was not intended in the way she meant it to,” parent Carolyn Newsom told the news site.

“I walk the hallway with my son back and forth. She’s always encouraging, loving. This was an error and I’m very sorry it had to happen this way,” she said.

Regardless, Hoffman’s boss, Patricia Wright, is now developing a corrective action plan for the principal, district spokeswoman Lisa Wolf told the Times, adding that it’s not district policy to assign students by race.

District officials also told WNCN Hoffman will face disciplinary action for the insensitive email.