By Tahaara Gazali
For many students around our town, their failing eyesight at first seems quite unmanageable until they connect with Vision Care. To see the Smartboard, some students willingly move to the front of the classroom, but many find indignity in the problem that they are facing and refuse to recognize it or can’t afford the cost for glasses. Eventually, after four years of observing student’ sight difficulties, Mr. Conrow, a physics teacher at East High School, came up with the idea of creating a class where students learn how to construct glasses; the collaboration with Mr. Newman made it easy and stable. Mr. Newman and Mr. Conrow recognized the problems students were facing and made a big difference in the city of Rochester. Mr. Newman states, “A boy in an elementary school had 15 referrals over a marking period before getting glasses and after he received them he only had six in the next marking period.” Newman also states, “A middle school girl went from three sight words without glasses to 30+ sight words within a month after getting her glasses.” Mr. Newman offers services to every child in the city school district. Each week he repairs five to fifteen glasses. Over the course of years that Vision Care has existed, Mr. Newman and East high school students have made 42,200 pairs of glasses. Mr. Newman states, “I am very proud of what we have accomplished here at East and hope to continue making differences in every kid’s life in the Rochester City School District.”
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