Ms. Jergensen

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About The Teacher
Ms. Jergensen grew up in the great state of Idaho. She lived in a small farming community, where her back yard was and still is the Snake River. Her father owned the Farmers Equity and a grain elevator. He also farmed 180 acres of dry farm land that is adjacent to the Teton Dam site. (This dry farm land now has a well on it and we now can grow both potatoes and grain). Ms. Jergensen learned to drive grain trucks, swim, and play sports at a very young age. She loved her carefree life. When she was 11 years old her father died suddenly of a heart attact and this changed her family's life forever. Because of her father's death she and her family moved to Salt Lake where her mother taught English at the University of Utah. She left all her friends and started Jr. High in Salt Lake. She didn't like the big city and she really didn't like Jr. High. The only joy in her life was when the bell rang on the last day of school and she could go back to Idaho for the summer. (She still feels that way). Her ninth grade year she had a wonderful teacher who changed her life. She learned to like Salt Lake and she loved Jr. High, this is when she decided to teach. Ms. Jergensen attended the University of Utah (Go Utes)where she received her bacholors in Physical Education with a minor in Health Education and a minor in Mathematics. She decided not to teach when she graduated, but left for the sunny skies of California where she worked for two years for a Dentist. She missed the seasons, her friends and family so she decided to come back to Utah and teach. She started her first job of teaching at Brockbank Jr. High in 1982 where she stayed for six year. She transferred to Wasatch Jr. where she is currently teaching math. Ms. Jergensen still goes home every summer to that small town where she drives grain and potato trucks, floats on the Snake River daily, mows the lawn, takes care of her garden, and enjoys her family, (especially when they all come to visit). The summer of 2002 the Jergensen's all gathered in Idaho for the funeral of their mom. All the children, grandchildren, and great grandchildren attended her funeral on the hottest day in July in an air conditioned church. After the funeral you could find all of us in that glorious Snake River swimming down from the back of our house to the sand bar. My mom and dad would have been happy, because this is what they taught us all to do. Enjoy life! "Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away." To this day the Snake River takes my breath away usually because it is so cold. Let's have a great year at Wasatch!!!!!

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Mission
I. THOU SHALT READ THE PROBLEM FROM BEGINNING TO END. II. WHATSOEVER THOU DOEST TO ONE SIDE OF YE EQUATION, DO YE ALSO TO THE OTHER. III. THOU MUST USE THE "COMMON SENSE," ELSE THOU WILT HAVE FLAGPOLES 9000 FEET IN HEIGHT, YEA...EVEN FATHERS YOUNGER THAN SONS. IV. THOU SHALT IGNORE THE TEACHINGS OF FALSE PROPHETS TO DO ALL WORK IN THY HEAD. V. WHEN THOU KNOWEST NOT, THOU SHALT LOOK IT UP, AND IF THY SEARCH STILL ELUDE THEE, THEN THOU SHALT ASK THE ALL-KNOWING TEACHER. VI. THOU SHALT MASTER EACH STEP BEFORE PUTTING THY HEAVY FOOT DOWN ON THE NEXT. VII. THY CORRECT ANSWER DOES NOT PROVE THAT THOU HAST WORKED THY PROBLEM CORRECTLY. THIS ARGUMENT CONVINCEST NONE, LEAST OF ALL...THE TEACHER. VIII. THOU SHALT FIRST SEE THAT THOU HAST COPIED THY PROBLEM CORRECTLY BEFORE BEARING FALSE WITNESS THAT THE ANSWER BOOK LIETH. XI. THOU SHALT LOOK BACK EVEN UNTO THY YOUTH AND REMEMBER THY ARITHMETIC. X. THOU SHALT LEARN, SPEAK, WRITE, AND LISTEN CORRECTLY IN THE LANGUAGE OF MATHEMATICS AND VERILY A's AND B's SHALL FOLLOW THEE EVEN UNTO GRADUATION.