In a tragic incident on August 15, Candra Rogers, an assistant principal at Collins Intermediate School in Corsicana, Texas, was left blind in her right eye after a student attacked her during a classroom disruption. The 11-year-old student, who had already become violent and attacked another student, escalated the situation by throwing chairs across the classroom.
Rogers, who arrived to de-escalate the situation, was struck by a wooden hanger the student threw. “The hanger hit me in my right eye and knocked it out of the socket,” Rogers recalled during a press conference. Despite efforts to protect herself, the impact caused severe damage, leaving her permanently blind in the affected eye. She was airlifted to a Dallas hospital, where doctors were able to reattach her eye, but the damage was irreversible.
Rogers, who was joined by her husband, Eugene Rogers, at the press conference, spoke passionately about the incident’s impact …