A 12-year-old boy says another student stabbed him in the eye with a pencil, leaving him with permanent damage.
The victim’s mother says this should have never happened because the school was supposed to keep the kids 20 feet apart.
The school acknowledges that something happened between the students, but Channel 2′s Tyisha Fernandes says the details don’t match up.
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The victim said his Cherokee Charter Academy schoolmate held the pencil and stabbed him in the eye, but the other boy said it was an accident.
Nicole Hodges says her son will be disfigured for life because a pencil ended up lodged in his eyeball while he was in class at Cherokee Charter Academy in Canton.
His mother said the problems started in August when another 12-year-old student started picking on her son.
“It was racial slurs, threats, and then it became physical,” Hodges said. “I talked to the administration. They said we’re gonna keep them separate. We’ll notify all the teachers, all those things. That’s what they promised us.”