Shocker.

Via NBC Washington:

She’s an honor roll student and accomplished violinist.

She also refuses to stand and recite the Pledge of Allegiance.

Enidris Siurano, a student at Damascus High School, was born in Puerto Rico. Siurano says she hasn’t recited the pledge since seventh grade to protest the political situation there.

“The government that’s there should be the one that’s running it, not one that’s miles and miles away,” she said.

But only recently has her refusal caused so much turmoil that she and her family turned to the ACLU of Maryland.

“Enidris was repeatedly directed by her teacher to stand,” said an ACLU attorney.

In a letter to the superintendent, the ACLU said that Siurano is being harassed, that she was called out of class and told to report to the assistant principal’s office.

“She told me that I was disrespecting the military and military families and students who had family in the military,” Siurano said.

The ACLU of Maryland says this is not the first time a case of alleged harassment has happened within Montgomery County Public Schools over not reciting the pledge.