Posted by john hewett on 1/29/09

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I am not a professional, and I am not an expert on vision
but I am trying to

get everyone reading this to use their common sense. I grew
up in school

with myopia as do many others. I have had time to think
about this in years

past. I am 60 years old now. I believe that the classroom
experience of sitting

in rows and columns of seats adds to eye sight problems.
A child sits in the

same seat every day and is the same distance from the
teacher and

blackboard all the time. Chances are that in modern
schools where he or she

goes to several classrooms each, that he or she

sits in the same seat in each room. I believe that anyone,
be they young or old

that sits for hours every day looking at something from the
same distance

may cause attrophy in the focusing muscles and in the eye
muscles used to

move the eye. I think that a class room should have five
rows of seats; one

for each day.

The rows are numbered one through five and each child sits
in a different row

every day and rotating through all five rows in a week. Thus
forcing their eyes

to focus at a different distance each day. This is the
first part of my idea. I

believe it would reduce atrophy in the eye movement muscles
and focusing

muscles.

The rest of othe idea is very similar. First we plan
our day so that we look

at the television for only two hours for a movie or the
computer monitor for

one hour at a time. We plan the day so that we look at
objects at all distances

equally and also such that our eyes must move from left to
right and up and

down part of the time also. If eveyone did this it might
remove one eye

defect; leaving only other such problems as glaucoma and
cataracts etc.

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