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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
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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
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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.”
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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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The glaring question is
why schools didn’t reach
compliance in ten years.
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.”
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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. She said
she wants to end up back
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