Basically yeah, parent just started to yell at me on the phone because LD broke her glasses and it's her third pair. Mother was ranting that she wants to talk to the student who broke them (She broke them herself) and wants them to pay for it.
I'm like, "I'm not the one in charge of this issue, but I suggest you talk to her teacher about situation."
It's not my fault your kid decided to take off her glasses when she knows not to take them off and sat on them on accident.
I have ordered glasses for students here. I just need the prescription. Most cost between $15 and $40 dollars, but I've never had a pair cost more than $85 and that was a heavy duty prescription.
We have an agreement with a local eye doctor. He will do the eye exam and supply the glasses at no charge for those we identify. He has a few styles of low end frames to choose from. One parent stormed out of the office because she thought it wasn't fair she had to pick from just a few frame styles. She thought she should be able to pick from anything in the display case for her LD...
Just this year a kid came in from recess, broke the plastic part of the frame that holds the lens in place. I superglued the frame back together, returned the glasses to the kid and all and all, I was pretty pleased with my repair job.
I got a call from his mom the next day, ripping me a new one...she said my repair "voided" the warranty they had for his glasses and now they were going to have to pay for new frames instead of having them replaced under warranty. Uh, sorry??
I have had a similar thing too this year! And what upset me about it, I was one one who got the little one glasses through a program we offer in our district! Mom always said she didn't have time to take him in.
But there is always time to complain I've learned.
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We have an agreement with a local eye doctor. He will do the eye exam and supply the glasses at no charge for those we identify. He has a few styles of low end frames to choose from. One parent stormed out of the office because she thought it wasn't fair she had to pick from just a few frame styles. She thought she should be able to pick from anything in the display case for her LD...
OY vey.
Foreign exchange student came in happier than a bird with a French fry when she got her $40 eye glasses (and the exam) from our friendly local optometrist. She seriously thought the black Clark Kent frames were the best ever.
Foreign exchange student came in happier than a bird with a French fry when she got her $40 eye glasses (and the exam) from our friendly local optometrist. She seriously thought the black Clark Kent frames were the best ever.
And those are the students that make our days. I remember ordering a pair of new glasses for one student - they were a 7th grader that had gone without them for a long time because of the cost; I reached to home and said I could order them if mom sent in the prescription. Mom was appreciative! The student put them on and was like "the world is clear again!" and I got a rare gift: a genuine MS hug.
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Just this year a kid came in from recess, broke the plastic part of the frame that holds the lens in place. I superglued the frame back together, returned the glasses to the kid and all and all, I was pretty pleased with my repair job.
I got a call from his mom the next day, ripping me a new one...she said my repair "voided" the warranty they had for his glasses and now they were going to have to pay for new frames instead of having them replaced under warranty. Uh, sorry??
That makes no sense. They'll replace broken frames but not broken-and-temporarily-glued frames? Either mom is blowing smoke or the warranty was never going to pay out anyway.
That makes no sense. They'll replace broken frames but not broken-and-temporarily-glued frames? Either mom is blowing smoke or the warranty was never going to pay out anyway.
That's why I just said, Oh, sorry...and forgot about it.
I freaking love Zenni Optical! I haven't bought glasses at the eye doctors' in years. My most recent Zenni order was $47 for awesome frames and progressive lens that tint purple! I talked my husband, who has quite the prescription, into ordering a few years ago and now he only gets his glasses there too. I've recommended it to lots of parents because of the high quality and low cost. Zenni recently added a line of kids flexible frames too :)
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We have an agreement with a local eye doctor. He will do the eye exam and supply the glasses at no charge for those we identify. He has a few styles of low end frames to choose from. One parent stormed out of the office because she thought it wasn't fair she had to pick from just a few frame styles. She thought she should be able to pick from anything in the display case for her LD...
My eye doctor is wanting to do this too, and I'm planning to go along with the idea, just got to talk to my principal.
Why is the kid taking off glasses to begin with? I absolutely hate glasses because I'm in that "my arms aren't long enough category" and looking from a book to the board makes me sick with glasses on. I can't handle them on my nose either ... so my doc put me in trifocal contacts. I realize contacts aren't the best option for little peeps but is something wrong with her prescription for her to choose to not be able to see rather than to keep them on and be able to see? It seems to me that maybe she either 1) doesn't need them or 2) her prescription maybe isn't quite right. Whats the real story behind why she doesn't want them on her face??
^^ I can't speak to why the kid is taking the glasses off, but I can offer up my experience as a silly adolescent... while I never broke my glasses, I took them off frequently and lost them, bent the frame a few times. It was hard for me to accept that I needed to wear glasses all the time and I resented it. I was never teased or anything, just hated the fact that I had vision problems... Took me about a year to wear them consistently all the time. Contacts were so freeing when I was teenager
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We have an agreement with a local eye doctor. He will do the eye exam and supply the glasses at no charge for those we identify. He has a few styles of low end frames to choose from. One parent stormed out of the office because she thought it wasn't fair she had to pick from just a few frame styles. She thought she should be able to pick from anything in the display case for her LD...