Cincinnati.com/September 1, 2011EAST PRICE HILL – Eyesight screenings last year at Oyler school revealed that 1 in 3 kids needed glasses. Yet by year’s end, fewer than half had gotten them.
The 700-student school serving grades K-12 has a nearly 90 percent poverty rate. Many families can’t afford or don’t have access to eye care services, which can hurt a child academically.
If a child can’t read the blackboard or focus on their homework papers, they won’t be able to learn, school health officials say.
School and community leaders plan to change that by opening a first-of-its kind eye clinic in the building next school year to offer eye exams and fit kids with glasses on site.