An assistant principal was left blind in one eye after a student hurled a clothes hanger at her during an argument. The incident occurred on August 15 at Collins Intermediate School in Corsicana, Texas. Collins Intermediate School assistant principal Candra Rogers got the news that the 11-year-old student was trying to attack another kid. As she reached to help, the student first threw chairs at her, which she dodged. Later, the student threw a hanger, which pierced the principal’s eye, reported the Daily Mail.
“The student was still irate and found the room ransacked with overturned furniture. The teacher and students were outside the classroom. One student was holding his head, having been assaulted by the student remaining in the classroom. I spoke lowly and slowly so as not to enrage him any further,” she recalled.
When she tried to calm the agitated student, he hurled chairs at her, followed by the clothes hanger. The assistant principal revealed, “The hanger hit me in my right eye and knocked it out of the socket. I grabbed my face while blood was pouring out of my head and stumbled out of the classroom door”.
The outlet added that due to the severity of the injury, she was airlifted from the small North Texas town to Dallas for immediate medical treatment where doctors were able to reattach her eye.
She added, “They (doctors) determined that I had been blinded. I will have to have additional surgery to repair my eyelid. I am praying for a miracle to happen.”
On August 15, the student was reportedly detained. However, he has now been released into the custody of his parents with ankle monitoring, the media outlet reported. He is not permitted to enter the campus and is restricted to a specific location.
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