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2A Wednesday, August 30, 2017 Appeal Tribune Teen Continued from Page 1A er spent 15-20 minutes ev- ery day, before and after school, teaching her fa- vored lamb to strut cor- rectly. “You start leading them around a bit, then you can start picking their head up, and you gotta pull back here on their tail, their dock, and that’ll make them go forward,” she said as she wiggled and maneuvered Chippy into position. “When they’re all slouched over, they just look like a bowl of jelly that doesn’t want to be there,” she said. “But when they look like they’re walking because they’re a million bucks, then they look pretty.” Ferschweiler has been competing with sheep since she was 9. She was raised on her family’s farm in Silverton, so ani- mals are ingrained in who she is. With her three show sheep arranged around her in the front yard, Ferschweiler reeled one in as she kept an eye on the others, making sure P.E. Continued from Page 1A just the requirements. Senate President Peter Courtney strongly sup- ported the higher stan- dards, but testified that, “we would be hurting our schools if we let these re- quirements go into effect in July.” So the Legislature ex- tended the deadlines and adjusted some of the re- quirements during its re- cently ended session. The additional P.E. time for elementary stu- dents can be phased in now through the 2020-21 school year. Middle schools need to reach 225 minutes by 2022-23. Officials and teachers said the reasons schools couldn’t meet the dead- line included the reces- sion, a nationwide teacher shortage, limited state funding and inadequate facilities. Even with the exten- sion, educators are wor- ried students will, again, not get sufficient physical education. “Things will stay the same ... unless there is more money,” warned Peggy Frantz-Geddes, the new P.E. teacher at Salem- Keizer’s Englewood Ele- mentary. More change needed Minot Cleveland of Legacy Health and the MOLLY J. SMITH/STATESMAN JOURNAL Dresen Ferschweiler, 13, stands with her Dorset sheep Chippy. Dresen will show Chippy at the Oregon State Fair. they didn’t wander into the garage and eat the dog food. She wore a shirt from the Marion County Lamb and Wool Show. One of her sisters, sit- ting outside nearby, wore a shirt which read “I (heart) sheep.” But she, and Ferschweiler’s other sister, were soon called away by their mom to head to the barn for daily chores. That’s pretty stan- dard at the farm, said their mother, Amy Ferschweiler. Dresen “had to go with me to do chores morning and night,” Amy Fersch- weiler said of her eldest. “From the time she was old enough to hold the bot- tle to feed them.” But, according to Amy Ferschweiler, the three girls don’t mind. They en- joy the work. “You can take their electronics away, no TV, they didn’t give a rip. One time, I’m like ‘Keep it up, and you won’t go do P.E. For All Kids Coalition has fought for P.E. stan- dards for more than 25 years. He said the 2007 legislation was already a “painful compromise” be- cause it would mean 10 years more before reach- ing their goals. Even with all the work done this session with var- ious agencies and advo- cates of physical educa- tion, it still means more time. He said this espe- cially impacts traditional- ly marginalized students. As of 2017, the average number of P.E. minutes in Oregon elementary schools is roughly half of the American Heart Asso- ciation’s recommenda- tions; the average for mid- dle schools is about two- thirds of the recommen- dations. Cleveland said the state’s best data suggests students who are low in- come or students of color typically get 15-20 per- cent less time compared to their more affluent and white counterparts. Advocates like Cleve- land have been pushing for the Oregon Depart- ment of Education to take a closer look at the rea- sons behind this, but he said one of the reasons could be lower-income and minority-majority districts shifted re- sources away from phys- ical education in the midst of No Child Left Behind in an attempt to improve test scores. “It’s a real issue of fair- ness and social justice,” he said. “No matter your race, parent income or zip code, you should get the right dose of P.E.” This also pertains to ac- cess to equipment, with some Title I school teach- ers in Salem-Keizer say- ing they don’t have access to amplification systems or microphones like wealthier schools in the district. “If you don’t have (good) health, students won’t do well in other sub- jects,” Cleveland said. “So we really need to make (it) a higher priority.” Physical education has been shown to help chil- dren prevent numerous conditions, including ab- normal cholesterol, high blood pressure, hypergly- cemia, obesity and heart disease as well as non- communicable diseases and mental health prob- lems, according to the American Heart Association. Cleveland added physical move- ment helps with behavior- al issues and helps stu- dents stay more focused, engaged and on task. “P.E. is so much about the social aspect — how to disagree, why rules are important, how to inte- grate literacy, math, nu- trition,” Rhonda Herbert, a P.E. teacher at Myers El- ementary in Salem, said. “It’s so much more than physical.” Multiple studies have shown if schools cut back time in P.E. to use else- where, it doesn’t help stu- dents academically. “The science is all there, but we need to wait a little long- er,” Cleveland said. One of the largest obstacles is the notion that P.E. is not a core subject, it’s “just gym.” Morgan Allen with the Confederation of Oregon School Administrators pointed out P.E. is the only subject with minute re- quirements. The success of physical education is largely based on the amount of moderate to rigorous activity. He said the way the 2007 law was originally written mandated min- utes on a weekly basis and wouldn’t have taken into account holidays, clo- sures, weather or other obstructions, ultimately setting schools up for fail- ure. The extended time will not only allow schools to increase minutes, Allen said, but will also allow the Department of Educa- tion time to fix a lot of the technical adjustments in the legislation. “If you only take half of your medication, do you think you’ll get the same benefit?” Cleveland asked. “No.” PUBLIC NOTICE The City of Silverton is seeking individuals interested in serving on the Silverton Planning Commission to fill a vacancy, which will expire on December 31, 2020. The Planning Commission recommends and makes suggestions to the City Council concerning parking lay out, locating of streets, the establishment of zones and other similar matters involving future growth, development, and beautification of the City. 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(People) thought, ‘Oh, that’s so far out; it’ll be easy.’” Allen said some dis- tricts may have been able to meet the requirements by the time of compliance, but it likely wouldn’t have been the desired quality or have the desired im- pact when rushed. “The vast majority would have been very stretched to meet it by fall,” he said. The Salem-Keizer School District has reached 120 minutes per elementary student per week, 30 minutes shy of the new level. If the latest bill didn’t pass, Heidi Litchfield, di- rector of elementary edu- cation for the district, said they would have made it work, but it wouldn’t have been easy. “The larger elemen- tary schools, actually most, don’t have multiple gyms or cafeterias that could be used,” Litchfield said. If needed, she said they could have had more teacher teams where two teachers take two classes into the space at the same time. wards of 70 students and only two or three teachers to corral them as they run, yell and play with equip- ment. This makes it difficult to focus on quality assess- ment and instruction, Herbert said. Teachers said they can’t focus well on the needs of each stu- dent, including students with disabilities. A bond proposal is in the works for Salem-Keizer that could bring hundreds of mil- lions of dollars to improve facility needs in the dis- trict, including gymnasi- ums and cafeterias. But not all districts will have that option to address fa- cility needs, and Salem- Keizer can’t make plans around a bond that has yet to be approved by voters. Litchfield said the easi- est way to increase the number of physical edu- cation minutes is to in- crease the number of P.E. teachers. But, again, that’s impossible when the district isn’t making any new hires for new po- sitions. Moving forward, dis- tricts are looking at the re- sources they have avail- able to them. This could mean doubled-up classes or thinking creatively about what space can be used or who is teaching. 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Educators say they were fighting against much more than a change in cur- riculum. Shortly after the initial bill passed, the 2008 re- cession hit the American economy and dramatical- ly changed schools’ abili- ties to retain staff — let alone hire new educators, Allen said. It also stripped districts of the money needed to improve facili- ties to accommodate more time in P.E. But even as the econo- my began to improve years later, educators were then faced with a na- tionwide teacher short- age. People were so fear- ful after the recession it seemed too great a finan- cial risk to embark upon a career in teaching, a pro- fession notorious for be- ing underpaid. Allen said some school districts still haven’t re- covered entirely after the recession and haven’t been able to hire back as many people as they had before 2008. Additionally, reduc- tions in budgets became status quo, Allen said, as districts had to make bud- get and staff cuts year af- ter year based on state funding. Both the original and amended bills declare there is no revenue need- ed, meaning state funding to implement the changes is non-existent. There was also little to no support from the state level from Allen’s view- point. “No one sat down and made a plan or coordi- nated at the state level,” he said. “It’s human na- on a farm when she can. “I don’t really see my- self sitting in an apart- ment with a cat or some- thing,” she said. “I can’t live there my whole life, it would drive me crazy.” Ferschweiler will be- gin her eighth grade year in the fall, following up a 4.0 GPA through seventh grade. But as far as she’s concerned, her work is at home. “All the homework gets annoying,” she said with a heavy sigh. “I’m like ‘Come out and try waking up at 5:30 and go- ing outside when it’s only 50 degrees out!’” A 5:30 a.m. wake-up is standard for Ferschweil- er during the school year. Between taking care of the animals in the morn- ing and afternoon, and school and homework in between, she doesn’t rest much during the day. Luckily, the sheep, horses, goats, chickens, dogs and even “all the stupid cats” make for good company. “If you can get lonely with these people, that’s amazing,” she said, ges- turing to the sheep nuz- zling against her leg. “If you could, I’d give you 10 bucks.” Staff PUBLIC NOTICES POLICY Public Notices are published by the Statesman Journal and available online at w w w .S ta te s m a n J o u r n a l.c o m . The Statesman Journal lobby is open Monday - Friday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. You can reach them by phone at 503-399-6789. In order to receive a quote for a public notice you must e-mail your copy to SJLegals@StatesmanJournal.com , and our Legal Clerk will return a proposal with cost, publication date(s), and a preview of the ad. Barriers to success chores with me,’” she said. “They were all standing at the utility room door with these big old alligator tears rolling down their eyes because I wouldn’t let them go with me.” Amy Ferschweiler and her husband grew up on farms. It was a no-brainer for them to move to this 30-acre plot in Silverton once they’d married. “I grew up on a farm. He grew up on a farm,” she said. “It’s just the way it is.” Amy Ferschweiler grew up around sheep as well, and her father was a pig farmer before that. She said it’s tough to shake the family tradi- tion, even if she or the girls had wanted to. “It’s a genetic disease, is all I can say,” she said. “It’s a life-long commit- ment, and I can’t get rid of it.” It doesn’t seem like Dresen Ferschweiler has any interest in changing that. Ferschweiler wants to be a large-animal veteri- narian when she gets out of school. There’s still a long way to go, but the thought gets her through the day-to-day. 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