Florida teacher suspended after forcing Jehovah’s Witness student to say Pledge of Allegiance. 'You are an American, and you are supposed to salute the flag,' Anne Daigle McDonald told her class of fourth graders at the Explorer K-8 School. A Florida teacher told her fourth grade student to pledge allegiance to the flag...or else. Hernando County school teacher Anne Daigle-McDonald has been suspended without pay after grabbing a student’s wrist, placing it over his heart, and forcing him to recite the Pledge.