Assistant principal who lost eye at school is still angry, but she forgives student [Video]

CORSICANA, Texas (KWTX/Gray News) – A Texas educator with more than 30 years of experience is calling for change, adding that even though she’s angry, she has forgiven the student who blinded her during an attack at school.

Fifty-six-year-old Candra Rogers, the assistant principal at Corsicana Independent School District’s Collins Intermediate, was blinded in her left eye in August after a student she was trying to calm down following a fight 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.

Education runs deep in Rogers’ family. She was born the daughter of …