Failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton thinks kneeling during the Pledge of Allegiance is praise-worthy.

Catonsville Middle School Student Mariana Taylor decided to emulate the NFL’s national anthem protests in her sixth-grade classroom in May, and her teacher told her it was disrespectful. The incident prompted the 11-year-old to complain to the school board, and her parents contacted the American Civil Liberties Union because the girl’s teacher discussed the protest with her.

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Fast-forward three months, and the site NowThis put together a short video of the ordeal posted it to Twitter this week, and Clinton commended the child for her defiance.

“It takes courage to exercise your right to protest injustice, especially when you’re 11!” Clinton tweeted. “Keep up the good work Mariana.”

Mariana complained to the Baltimore County Public Schools board that her teacher was out of bounds for discussing why some view her actions as disrespectful, particularly those in the military who defend her right to free speech.

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“I decided to kneel for the school pledge and when I did so, um, my teacher she, um, she came up to me and she told me that, um, well, she basically implied I was, um, disrespecting the country,” Mariana told the board. “She brought up her family overseas, um, which, um, to my current belief, is that, um, she, like legally, this is not in her rights as a teacher to speak to a student like this.”

“It is in my rights that I am allowed to kneel, and um, and from Tinker v. Des Moines, um, one of the cases where, um, children took a stand in public school, I think it was public schools. Um, students are allowed to, um, take stands as long as it’s not disruptive to the classroom,” she continued. “And I feel that my confrontation was more disruptive than kneeling itself.”

Mariana said she was inspired by Colin Kapernick’s NFL protests, and decided to raise the issue with the school board so “other students don’t have to go through what I went through.”

“I left the classroom in tears,” she alleged.

The ACLU backed the girl after they were contacted by her parents.

“The Supreme Court has been very clear that students do not lose their First Amendment rights when they enter the Schoolhouse door,” ACLU legal associate Jay Jimen said, according to Now This. “The ACLU urges Baltimore County and all Maryland schools to review and update their policies to honor respectful student activism in the future, like silently ‘taking a knee.’”

Baltimore County Public Schools responded by simply stating the obvious: that Mariana wasn’t punished for protesting.

“We know of no student who has been reprimanded or punished for nonparticipation in patriotic observances,” according to a school statement. “We fully support students’ rights and encourage student voice as articulated in board policy.”

Of course, it’s not particularly surprising that Clinton is fully behind Taylor.

She opposes all things President Trump supports, such as standing for the national anthem, and has previously described kneeling in protest as a “reverent” thing, Fox News reports.

“Actually, kneeling is a reverent position,” Clinton said last year. “It was to demonstrate in a peaceful way against racism and injustice in our criminal system.”