A Tennessee elementary school will no longer feature a student portraying Hitler or the [Nazi] salute as part of a class project about World War II after an 11-year-old was removed from her classroom last week for telling her classmates to stop Nazi saluting one another.

The students at the McFadden School of Excellence in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, had been taught to do the salute in their social studies class.

My daughter spoke out even though she was told by a teacher not to address it. She has been bullied by classmates and targeted personally with Nazi salutes, so school feels lonely sometimes. But her family is so proud of her, and I bet there are others who are too, wrote Keith Jacks Gamble, the childs father, on Facebook .

Gamble posted the story about his daughter on Twitter as well, asking others to support her actions.

He wrote in his posts that children at the McFadden School of Excellence had been giving Nazi salutes in the hallways and at recess for weeks after a fifth-grade social studies teacher assigned a student to give the Sieg Heil salute while dressed as Adolf Hitler for a project.