A school photo that shows a disabled boy ostracized from his peers made the boy's parents furious. And now, photo company Lifetouch is catching flack from the photo.

The class photo clearly shows 7-year-old Miles Ambridge, who uses a wheelchair, separated by a wide gap from the rest of his 22 classmates. As Ambridge grins adorably for the camera's flash, he cranes his neck to be closer to the rest of his classmates.

The boy's parents were outraged by the photo, and the photography company responsible, Lifetouch, is catching flack from the incident.

"I couldn't comprehend how the photographer could look through the lens and think that this was good composition. ... [T]his just boggled the mind," smother Anne Belanger told press. "Being picked on and being set aside is horrendous and this was what was happening."

Ambridge, a student at Herbert Spencer Elementary School, has spinal muscular atrophy, a genetic disease. It means he cannot walk and uses a wheelchair.

Don Ambridge, Miles' father, asked Lifetouch Photography to take the photo and posted it to the company's Facebook page. They retook the photo, and Miles was sitting with the rest of his friends-but not in his wheelchair. Some have called this move ''ableist'' because his disability is masked, making it still abnormal.

"Kids can be cruel but this comes from adults, which is even worse," Belanger said.. "Adults should know better."

Still, Don Ambridge doesn't think the photographer meant to deliberately discriminate against his son.

"For me, discrimination is a willful exclusion of somebody," said the elder Ambridge, according to CBC News. "I don't believe that's a case here. ... I think what it is, is just a circumstantial lack of awareness that resulted in a really emotionally tragic output."

His son wasn't upset at the time, Ambridge said.

"He doesn't carry that perception of any wrongdoing or malice. He's just trying to be part of the picture and he's having a great time doing it," said Ambridge, per CBC News. "I think that's part of the pain for me. ... [I]t's just so innocent where you start thinking, 'How dare you?'"

Lifetouch declined to comment.