Educators are almost always the heroes of their classrooms, but in 2022 at Cedar Hill Elementary in Ardmore, Alabama, a group of first-graders showed amazing courage by helping their teacher during a medical emergency.
First-grade teacher Tracy Hodges began experiencing blurry vision on January 20, 2022 when her students sat down after singing and marching in a music exercise. Attendance was low that day, with only 12 out of 18 children in attendance due to COVID-19.
“Mrs. Hodges was shaking and we thought she was just joking,” Dalton Widener, 6, who was in the classroom at the time, said according to USA Today. “Then she fell out of the chair and hit her head.”
“She fell out of the chair and her glasses fell off and she dropped,” Emily Johnson, 7, added.
“I couldn’t even find the door and I couldn’t make out the three children who were sitting in front of me,” said Hodges.
