Dear Parents,

This year getting ready for our children to go back to school looked very different from years past. One important item that may have been rescheduled or cancelled and now missed is an updated eye exam for your student.

One in four children, it turns out, has subpar eyesight, while a whopping 60 percent of “problem learners” have trouble seeing. If you can’t see well, you won’t read well, and that makes school extra hard. 

I shared these statistics with the parents whose children are my students. The students who did have eye exams ALL needed glasses, and what a positive difference it made in our lessons.

So please parents, if your child(ren) has not had a thorough eye exam recently, I strongly encourage you to schedule one for them.

Thank you,

Fran Olesen, Reading Specialist / Title 1 Director