A South Carolina mother is claiming her 14-year-old son's high school science teacher told him to go back to Africa after he refused to stand up for the Pledge of Allegiance in class this week.

Nicole Whitmore said her son, a freshman at Battery Creek High School, was just one of half the students in the room who did not want to stand for the morning pledge on Tuesday.

Whitmore said the teacher, whose name has not been released, told them to stand up and her son told a friend it didn't matter because 'Donald Trump is going to send us back to Africa'.

Nicole Whitmore said her son, a freshman at Battery Creek High School (pictured) in Beaufort, South Carolina, was told to go back to Africa after he refused to stand for the Pledge of Allegiance in class

That's when the teacher, who is white, allegedly told the boy he should go back.

The Beaufort County School District is currently looking into the incident, said spokesman Jim Foster.

Students are permitted by state law to sit down or leave the room during the Pledge of Allegiance

The district said it also reminded teachers and staff that students are permitted by state law to sit down or leave the room during the Pledge of Allegiance as long as it does not infringe on their peers or disrupt classroom activities.

Whitmore said she hopes the teacher faces consequences for the alleged comment.

'You don't tell my son to go back to Africa knowing you're a different color that he is,' she told The Beaufort Gazette.

'I'm Puerto Rican and black, I know what I went through.'

'I don't want my son going through anything discriminative.'

Whitmore said her son recently revealed to her that reading the news made him upset, specifically stories about Donald Trump and his remarks during the presidential campaign.

A Trump supporter made headlines in March when he yelled 'Go back to Africa!' at a group of Black Lives Matters supporters outside a Trump rally in Cleveland.

'These children are not dumb,' she said.

'They can read and they see all of this going on and for (a teacher) to tell him to go back to Africa, of course he's going to feel some type of way.'

Whitmore said her son was forced to spend his first period in the school's media center the day after the incident.

The school would not comment on whether the teen was being disciplined.