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Glasses keep getting broken

NAS90361

Hi everyone, i'm wondering if anyone has advice please

I'm a teacher working in a SEND school with a group of children with a variety of needs including autism. One of my students has repeatedly broken glasses off of staff and visitors to the school. Aside from how the school is replacing glasses, how we are working with this young person to look at strategies to manage this etc, my real question is: does anyone have a recommendation for where i can buy reasonable looking plastic frames with prescription plastic/polycarbonate lenses. From what i can tell the lenses wouldn't break and if the frames broke then they could be replaced quite cheaply. And no, contacts arent an option for me!

Many thanks in advance 

Barry

  • I had this exact same problem and ended up just wearing contact lenses to avoid it completely. Either my glasses were getting broken or rammed into my face which was exceedingly painful, wearing lenses solved both problems.

  • I've heard good things about Zenni Optical and Warby Parker for affordable prescription glasses with plastic or polycarbonate lenses. They offer a variety of styles, so you might find something that looks good and is durable.

  • If you look at suppliers of prescription laboratory safety glasses (can be found online), you may find ranges of more robust spectacles that have elasticated bands that fasten the earpieces together behind the head. This would make them more secure from being taken off the face and more resistant to being broken if they were..

  • Don't hold me to this, but I think that "Home Bargains" or "Boots" or "Tesco" or "Asda" do ranges of "cheaper" glasses like those you describe above.