How Nick Mantas voted at council

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1. 2025.MM33.22ADOPTED

   Promoting and Delivering School Based Vision Testing in Selected Toronto High Needs Schools

   Although Toronto Public Health promotes eye examinations, it does not offer school-based eye examinations based on the dental model. Studies have shown that students with visual impairments have limited ability to learn incidentally. This affects how they form concepts and develop schema or frameworks for understanding new ideas and vocabulary that provide essential foundation skills for comprehension and abstract reasoning. Visual processing directly impacts one’s ability to learn, read, and retain information. Learning in school is typically directed at visual processing 75 percent of the time. So, to do well in school and in life, developing one's visual system is critical. Educational studies and epidemiological results have documented the high prevalence of poor vision among school-age students because of exposure to prolonged vision-demanding academic tasks and prolonged indoor sedentary lifestyles. Megan Collins, a pediatric ophthalmologist at the Wilmer Eye Institute, associate faculty at the Berman Institute of Bioethics, and co-director of the Johns Hopkins Consortium for School-Based Health Solutions concluded in one study that “giving kids the glasses they…

   City Council · 2025-10-09 19:34 PM

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   Nick Mantas's vote: Yes

   Two-Thirds required - MM33.22 - End the debate

   Motion result

   Carried

   Recorded tally

   20-2

   Source outcome