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Show Jtt T -- r Page 4 Young Womanhood Recognition Award By Tricia Call Sports fan extraordinaire ee through competitive means as well as the teachers who excelled at teaching children to love activity and to keep trying no matter how poorly heshe seemed to be doing. I would go further than Joyner-KerseIts not the lack of it is the the exposure thats problem priority in the curriculum that is askew. Speaking generally, and not specifically, physical education has been a forum for creating and reinforcing a pecking order mentality in our children. I believe that a child's ability to enjoy physical activity is directly proportional to their ability to perform physical activity in comparison to their peers. When teachers set up races and other competitive events in kindergarten and elementary school, they are setting up children who lack the genetic tendency to perform well to drop out. In addition, unsupervised physical activity on the play ground expands on the torture these young children face. The disproportionate emphasis in physical education classes on competitive activity excludes children who have not been exposed to that activity before getting to school. Take the case of one farm kid I grew up with. He performed in most P.E. activities, and couldn't pull himself up a rope due to a lack of upper body strength in the pull-u- p direction. So it was quite an experience when his seventh grade P.E. teacher audibly gasped when he was testing the students abilities in lifting weights, and this particular student d the highest in the class. His teacher didnt know he was packing 40 to 80 pounds per hand the distance from the barn to the calf pens two or more times per day on the family farm, heaving hay bales even more times, and general manual labor for four or five hours every day, and how that might translate into some physical gifts. In other words, this teacher, as many before him, had w ritten this kid off. Then there are teachers like Mrs. Fackrell who leaves a lump in my throat every time I think about her. Mrs. Fackrell in third grade of Wellsville Elementary was a scary teacher to me and she wasn't even my teacher. Then one day, I saw her work magic on a boy who was definitely not thriving. He wore coke-bott- le glasses, and had the shortest legs in the class. He loved rockets and hated P.E. I le had been a major behavior problem in second grade. She used his love for space and science to motivate him to try', even when doing so would be extremely humiliating to him. Take running, skipping, walking and jumping races would you even try if you knew that everyone would finish before you had reached the half way mark, and you would be running as hard as you could in front of every body. Hed been through this wringer before. Yet there he was, running his heart out as Mrs. Fackrell y ellcd, Go, Mike, go! and other encouragements. Mrs. Fackrell understood the importance for every child to have a chance to perform at his or her own best, not in comparison with peers but with their own drive to improve himherself. As a reward for trying, and in an effort to get his peers to understand the wonderful world Mike loved, Mike got to demonstrate launching his own home-mad- e rocket! There are some wonderful teachers just like Mrs. Fackrell in most schools. The troubje is that there was not a Mrs. Fackrell for Mike in the fourth, fifth and sixth grade. Nor was there any like her in secondary education, and Mike lost interest in school completely and dropped out. I believe that his longevity in the education s stem is directly tied to his usual experiences in P.E. It was only upon herdcath that Mike came around and remembered those glorious davs in third grade, that he went and finished his education, and became a top notch rocket mechanic ... in the Air Force. e. low-avera- bench-presse- Softwood comes from comes from broad-leave- d cone-bearin- trees, called conifers, while trees, most of which are called deciduous. g Kelsey Olsen Last weekend was extra long, thanks to Utahs teachers and Utah Education Association (UEA). Those who availed themselves to the annual inservice put together by union leaders were treated to a special presentation by Jackie Joyner Kersee. Joyner-Kersis considered the world's greatest female athlete. She kicked off the two day conference which was titled Health for Success. I dont know how many teachers heard her message of concern for the rising numbers of children who are overweight and inactive. In talking about the importance of physical activity and fitness, she remarked If they're not getting that exposure in school, theyre probably not going to get it. This set me up for a weekend of reliving my early years of the waste of an opportunity to actually physical education teach my peers and mjself form and function of movement non- Thursday, October 16,1997 e Messenger-Enterpris- HMdMMpWj Kelsey Olsen, daughter of Steven and Joyce Olsen, received her Young Womanhood Recognition Award on Sunday, September 28, 1997. She is a member of the Ephraim Fourth Ward and with the starting of Snow College, has moved on to a student ward. Her projects include working with Manti High School student council members to teach students at Manti Elementary school & Hwit&U EPHRAIM (801)283-530- End of Season Clearance Sale Thursday, Friday and Saturday re- fusal skills, reading books on tapes to help students with reading, and painting the runway at the EphraimManti Airport. She worked on her sewing skills by e tying two quilts and dothem the Festival of to nating Trees. Kelsey improved her own talents by making a counted cross crib-siz- stitch picture to decorate her room. She also helped her ward Primary chorister by painting and laminating visual sides used in singing time. Kelsey is a graduate of Manti 0 off 25-5- 0 Kelsey Olsen on specially marked stock High School and Manti LDS Seminary. She is a member of the National Honor Society and is currently enrolled at Snow College with an academic scholarship, where she is pursuing an education in Pharmacology. Kelsey is the granddaughter of Morris and Lucile Sorenson of Ephraim and Neldon and Thelma Jensen of Gunnison. Check out the oolite stone, winter fertilizer, mulch and the best in landscaping and tree-barsupplies and services! k; Hours: p.m. M-- F 10 a.m.-- 4 p.m. Saturday or by appointment 3-- 6 Let us design and install your sprinkler system! 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