INSANE: Children s vision problems often go undetected despite calls for regular screening | Rare Historical Photos

Jessica Oberoi, 13, can’t remember when her eyesight started getting blurry. All she knows is that she had to squint to see the whiteboard at school.

It wasn’t until last fall, when her eighth-grade class in Bloomington, Indiana, got vision screenings that Jessica’s extreme nearsightedness and amblyopia, or lazy eye, were discovered.