Posted on 08/27/2024 11:43:36 AM PDT by BigFreakinToad
CORSICANA, Texas (KWTX) - Candra Rogers, the assistant principal a Collins Intermediate School who was airlifted to a hospital after she was attacked by a student on Aug. 15 on Tuesday revealed the attack knocked her right eye out of her socket and doctors say she has lost sight in that eye.
“Thank you all from the dept of my heart for all your prayers,” Rogers said during a news conference, “They have given me and my family strength during these trying times.”
The attack happened during lunch when a behavioral teacher at the school called administrators on the radio for assistance with an aggressive student.
Rogers said she was the first administrator to arrive at the classroom and encountered students and the teacher outside the room. One student who was assaulted by the aggressive student was holding his head, she said. The aggressive student remained inside the classroom.
“I entered and found the student was still irate and found the room ransacked with overturned furniture. I knew I had to be as calm as possible and I spoke (to the student) lowly and slowly,” Rogers recalled.
The aggressive student picked up a chair and acted as if he would throw it, Rogers said. “He finally did throw it at me but I caught it mid air. He picked up another chair to throw at me when another assistant principal entered the room. I used the first chair to block the second. He picked up a third and threw it at the other assistant principal and I used that initial chair to block the one that he threw at her.”
After blocking the chair, the student threw a wooden hangar at Rogers and she “could not stop it fast enough.”
“The hangar hit me on my right eye and knocked it out of my socket,” Rogers recalled. “I grabbed my head while blood was pouring out of my head and stumbled out through the classroom door.”
Paramedics airlifted her to Parkland Medical Center in Dallas. She underwent surgery as soon as possible and doctors were able to re-insert the eye. “They believe the damage is permanent and I have been blinded.”
Rogers said she will require additional surgeries to repair her eyelid and doctors may have to remove her right eye. “I still believe in God for a miracle for restoration of my sight.”
“This tragedy affected, not only my husband, my children, family and friends, but also negatively affected my school district and community,” the assistant principal said.
During her news conference, Rogers said Chapter 37 of the Texas Education Code, created in 1995 to protect marginalized students in regards to how these students are disciplined, should be “re-evaluated so that no other teacher, principal or educator is ever put in this situation,”
“Chapter 37 may need to incorporate changes to address the mental, social and emotional well being of these students,” Rogers said, “As educators, we care about our students and their safety but we must also care about the safety of our educational staff. Our safety is important, too. We should never have to fear being in a classroom with an aggressive student. Everyone’s protection is paramount.”
“Overly aggressive students need services to meet their needs. I do not believe the safety of other students and staff should suffer,” she added.
The Collins Intermediate School student involved in the attack has been “restricted to a specific location and cannot be on campus,” the district announced on Monday.
The matter has been referred to the Navarro County District Attorney’s Office and the Juvenile Probation Department, Corsicana ISD said.
The school district “anticipates the DA’s office will take additional steps to address the student’s action through the juvenile court system.”
A school cop shoulda shot him down.
These days, it’s safer to be a cop or a soldier than a teacher.
A woman shouldn’t be trying to subdue a feral teenage boy. This is common sense. Or used to be.
Her husband should be the one to put the animal down!
I like her use of the chairs, I love light chairs for a number of fighting reasons, the main one is against knives, upper body strength and a light dinner table chair make a great combo against a knife and it leaves your primary arm free for whatever you have in it or want to use it for.
oh what a $h!t storm that would cause. I will say a school resource officer should have been the first to respond, not an admin person. Officer could have tased the precious little darling dat didn’ts dew nuffin
I agree. one of our local middle school campuses had 189 fights last school year, that is freaking ridiculous. THose that were reported, no telling how many went unreported
her lib speak wasn’t much protection. I agree, she shouldn’t have been first. If the teacher took the kids out, then they all should have waited for the resource officer or local cops
LOL, Do you find yourself in these kinds of situations often?
actually, an eye for an eye is only a break even position....... the payout must be much larger
It has been a while but they have been useful before, the last time a pool stick sufficed but I would have felt much more confident with a light chair in one of my hands.
It pays to recognize the use of everyday things as weapons and for defense and a light chair is just so great for controlling people and interfering with their plans for how it should go.
It also isn’t the Christian rule, yet “eye for an eye’ is surely the most quoted bible verse in the history of movies by the supposed Christian characters and especially in westerns.
agreed should have been “an eye for an eye to start with”
The parents should foot the medical bills for the injuries caused by him. Then she should take them to court as sue for damages and loss of sight.
agreed. Kid does not belong in a public school with regular kids. Little skid mark probably hasn’t learned anything anyway.
The scrote will always be a menace to society and hurt others.
My home town, I went to that junior high school.
>> Overly aggressive students need services to meet their needs.
BS!
These students need to be expelled from school at the first sign of “overly aggressive” behavior. It is up to their PARENTS to deal with them after that.
Our school district is paying a quarter million bucks a year to “service” just ONE of these dear li’l children. It’s lunacy.
There’s a Texas Youth Commission (prison system) for the little bastards.
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