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'I've forgiven him': Corsicana ISD educator who lost eye still angry, but forgives student who attacked her

  • 1.  'I've forgiven him': Corsicana ISD educator who lost eye still angry, but forgives student who attacked her

    Posted 12-20-2024 03:20 PM

    A Central Texas educator with 30-plus years of experience is calling for change, adding that although she's angry, she has forgiven the student who blinded her during an attack at school. Corsicana ISD's Collins Intermediate Assistant Principal Candra Rogers, 56, was blinded in her left eye in August after a student she was trying to calm down following a fight with another student threw a wooden hanger that hit her eye and knocked it out of its socket. She hasn't returned to work since. "I have headaches every single day, every day," Rogers said. "There are some days I can't get out of bed." This is the first time the career educator has opened up in detail about the disturbing afternoon at school that changed her life forever.

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    Michael Spurlin
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