{"id":7,"date":"2014-11-10T13:08:09","date_gmt":"2014-11-10T18:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-fall-2014\/?page_id=7"},"modified":"2014-12-19T00:41:10","modified_gmt":"2014-12-19T05:41:10","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-fall-2014-ssawyers\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Glasses?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\">There are roughly\u00a050 million children and adolescents enrolled in public elementary and secondary schools. An estimated five\u00a0million more students attend private schools. Nearly 25% of school age children have vision problems. That is 12.5 million students. Corrected vision is a fundamental tool everyone needs to help focus in the classroom and in life.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Vision correction\u00a0can increase a child&#8217;s self-confidence, social adjustment and academic performance. Prescription eyeglasses can and will help a child see what she&#8217;s been missing&#8211;everything from assignments on the board, lessons in the classroom, stories in books, to the soccer ball on the field. The self-esteem and empowerment that comes with clear vision increases a child&#8217;s potential for success immensely.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-87 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-fall-2014-ssawyers\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/85\/2014\/11\/can-you-read-this-300x291.jpg\" alt=\"Microsoft PowerPoint - Presentation1\" width=\"300\" height=\"291\" srcset=\"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-fall-2014-ssawyers\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/85\/2014\/11\/can-you-read-this-300x291.jpg 300w, https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-fall-2014-ssawyers\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/85\/2014\/11\/can-you-read-this-150x145.jpg 150w, https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-fall-2014-ssawyers\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/85\/2014\/11\/can-you-read-this-1024x995.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-fall-2014-ssawyers\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/85\/2014\/11\/can-you-read-this-624x606.jpg 624w, https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-fall-2014-ssawyers\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/85\/2014\/11\/can-you-read-this.jpg 1448w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">When a child cannot see clearly, &#8220;it&#8217;s the same thing as a kid being hungry at school.&#8221; &#8211;\u00a0Principal Ovalle, Campbell Park Elementary School in Tampa Bay, Florida.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are roughly\u00a050 million children and adolescents enrolled in public elementary and secondary schools. An estimated five\u00a0million more students attend private schools. Nearly 25% of school age children have vision problems. That is 12.5 million students. Corrected vision is a fundamental tool everyone needs to help focus in the classroom and in life. Vision correction\u00a0can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-7","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-fall-2014-ssawyers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-fall-2014-ssawyers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-fall-2014-ssawyers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-fall-2014-ssawyers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-fall-2014-ssawyers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-fall-2014-ssawyers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-fall-2014-ssawyers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}