The student was removed from class after shouting, "Stop it, put your hands down now," her father said.

An 11-year-old girl was removed from class and sent to the principal's office at her Tennessee school last week after calling on her classmates to stop making the Nazi salute, according to the girl's father. In a series of tweets Tuesday, Keith Gamble said his daughter's classmates made the gesture on multiple occasions after a teacher instructed a student who was assigned to play Adolf Hitler in a history project to give the "Sieg Heil" salute at the end of his speech. "Each time, my daughter spoke out even though she was told by a teacher 'not to address it,'" Gamble tweeted.

On Thursday, she was dismissed from class after shouting, "Stop it, put your hands down now," to a group of students who gave the salute in response to the student portraying Hitler, according to Gamble.

Please comment with support for my 11-year-old daughter. She was removed from class and sent to the principal’s office for the rest of the day last Thursday for shouting, “Stop it, put your hands down now,” to a group of students giving the Nazi salute.

James Evans, a spokesperson for Rutherford County Schools, said in a statement to BuzzFeed News on Tuesday that the assignment was part of a World War II exhibit of Living History performed by fifth-graders at McFadden School of Excellence in Murfreesboro.

The assignment involved the student who was portraying Hitler to deliver a speech and give the Nazi salute at the end, he said. "During rehearsal on Thursday, May 9, the student gave his presentation, and when he gave his salute, some other students in the class responded with the same salute," Evans said in the statement. "When this occurred, one student became upset and had an outburst." Evans said the teacher talked with the student and tried to calm her down "but was unable to do so." The teacher then took the student to the hallway "to give her some time to calm down but to no avail," according to Evans. The teacher called the girl's mother and then took her to the principal "to talk about what had happened," the school spokesperson said. "The student was not disciplined or punished in any way for her concerns or actions," he said. "In fact, the school agrees the actions of the students were completely inappropriate." Gamble did not immediately respond to BuzzFeed News' requests for comment. According to screenshots of an email Gamble's wife sent to the school's principal laying out a timeline of the incident, 10 to 20 of his daughter's classmates first performed the Nazi salute in mid-April during the class's first rehearsal for the Living History project. In an email to Gamble's wife Friday, a teacher said the girl was given "an open platform at that time to appropriately voice her concerns and share with her peers her feelings, then she was asked to not address it again," according to the screenshots.

The teacher wrote that when the girl "yelled out" during the final rehearsal last Thursday she "was disrespectful with her tone and body language to me and Mrs. J[redacted] while we were trying to discuss her behavior with her," according to the screenshots.