No glasses on sports fields?

[Anonymous]

Regular glasses don't have safety lenses so if there is an accident there can be a serious issue. So, they want sports goggles/glasses or contacts. Walmart is usually the cheapest.

[Anonymous]

The school is doing you a favor, your kid should have been in sports goggles or contacts while playing long ago.

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Anonymous wrote:OP here. Thanks, 20:08. I'll check those out. I wonder how long it takes to get them and don't know what he can do until then.

You're welcome. I think they came pretty fast, but I don't really remember.

Zenni has sports goggles and they're pretty fast.

It’s been a few months since I ordered, but I believe you can pay a small amount extra to get expedited shipping from Zenni. My most recent pair beat their expected deadline and came from their facility in California.

Zenni is slow even if you pay the expedited shipping and prone to errors (we have gotten a few pairs from them and 2 were completely utterly wrong--I took them to an optometrist because I couldn't see and the optometrist was like, what the heck is this presciption? It's definitely not yours.)

[Anonymous]

MCPS shouldn't spring this on anyone after tryouts have happened. This should have been sent out last spring as a heads up and given people time to figure this out. Fwiw I ordered sports glasses for my kid on Zenni once and my kid said they made her dizzy-same prescription, but not right for her. It's not just easy to order cheap versions

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Anonymous wrote:MCPS shouldn't spring this on anyone after tryouts have happened. This should have been sent out last spring as a heads up and given people time to figure this out. Fwiw I ordered sports glasses for my kid on Zenni once and my kid said they made her dizzy-same prescription, but not right for her. It's not just easy to order cheap versions

Is this a new rule?

[Anonymous]

No. They have never allowed students to play sports while wearing eye glasses. They would be negligent fools to allow that. I'm surprised op was going to allow her student to play sports wearing eye glasses. It's refreshing to see a parent be so lax about their child's safety. We usually have the opposite in this day and age.

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Anonymous wrote:The coach at our school says kids on sports teams aren't allowed to wear their glasses on the field. Maybe there was some awful accident where a kid with glasses got hit... but on the other hand, kids who can't see are more prone to injury.
They can switch to contacts but that's a whole process that takes a few weeks.
Is there an actual MCPS rule that forbids glasses on the soccer field? Or is this more of an individual school's preference? Is it written down anywhere so we can see if there's any kind of glasses that'd be OK?
Thanks --

I'd contact the principal and say that my kid needs a 504 and that I want to get the paperwork started. I'd be very specific because I'd go after the school and the coach if my kid was subsequently cut over this and I'd want to remove any element of deniability on the school's part

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Anonymous wrote:No. They have never allowed students to play sports while wearing eye glasses. They would be negligent fools to allow that. I'm surprised op was going to allow her student to play sports wearing eye glasses. It's refreshing to see a parent be so lax about their child's safety. We usually have the opposite in this day and age.

Kids lenses are shatter proof and most of the frames are safe for sports.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The coach at our school says kids on sports teams aren't allowed to wear their glasses on the field. Maybe there was some awful accident where a kid with glasses got hit... but on the other hand, kids who can't see are more prone to injury.
They can switch to contacts but that's a whole process that takes a few weeks.
Is there an actual MCPS rule that forbids glasses on the soccer field? Or is this more of an individual school's preference? Is it written down anywhere so we can see if there's any kind of glasses that'd be OK?
Thanks --

My daughter plays high school soccer and wears contacts. There is no way I would want her to wear glasses on the field. If she couldn't wear contacts, I would invest in sports goggles. I would not want to risk her getting glass in her eye if there was a collision or the ball hit her in face.

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Anonymous wrote:No. They have never allowed students to play sports while wearing eye glasses. They would be negligent fools to allow that. I'm surprised op was going to allow her student to play sports wearing eye glasses. It's refreshing to see a parent be so lax about their child's safety. We usually have the opposite in this day and age.

Kids lenses are shatter proof and most of the frames are safe for sports.

There's no way shatter proof lenses could withstand some of the things that could happen in sports on the field.

[Anonymous]

It's a reasonable rule. My son plays soccer and wears sports goggles (I would prefer contacts, but he cannot stand the feeling). I cannot imagine playing a contact sport in regular glasses.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:No. They have never allowed students to play sports while wearing eye glasses. They would be negligent fools to allow that. I'm surprised op was going to allow her student to play sports wearing eye glasses. It's refreshing to see a parent be so lax about their child's safety. We usually have the opposite in this day and age.

Kids lenses are shatter proof and most of the frames are safe for sports.

Most "kids" playing sports are teens and once you hit adult frames they are not shatterproof.

[Anonymous]

DS has been wearing glasses since he was 2 and when he was in 2nd grade the eye doctor told me to purchase sports goggles. All the teams he played on beyond the rec level required them. They were a big investment but I later learned Walmart had inexpensive options. And the same pair lasts for years. My son broke several pairs of “flexible” glasses during recess and pickup games over the years when he didn’t have the goggles with him. One time he was injured by the broken frame. He now wears contacts but I know those don’t work for everyone.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No. They have never allowed students to play sports while wearing eye glasses. They would be negligent fools to allow that. I'm surprised op was going to allow her student to play sports wearing eye glasses. It's refreshing to see a parent be so lax about their child's safety. We usually have the opposite in this day and age.

Kids lenses are shatter proof and most of the frames are safe for sports.

There's no way shatter proof lenses could withstand some of the things that could happen in sports on the field.

Polycarbonate is shatterproof. It bends, it doesn't shatter into fragments.

[Anonymous]

I think the rule is NO GLASS on athletic fields, not no glasses.