\u2019n Onderwys-grote het onlangs finaal gegroet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Thomas \u201cTommy\u201d Davids het Vrydag 28 Junie n\u00e1 \u2019n siekbed sy laaste asem uitgeblaas. Sy gesin was aan sy sy by Helderberg-hospies in Somerset-Wes en het dit as \u201cdie einde van \u2019n era\u201d beskryf.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Davids, \u2019n boorling van Pni\u00ebl in die Boland, met \u2019n lewenslange passie vir onderwys en vir sy gemeenskap, het sy ganse beroepslewe van meer as 30 jaar aan voorskoolse, prim\u00eare asook sekond\u00eare onderwys gewy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hy is op 2 November 1941 gebore en het hom aan die destydse Hewat-onderwyskollege in Kaapstad as onderwyser bekwaam. Sy onderwysloopbaan het in 1963 aan die Albert Myburgh Sekond\u00eare Skool in Bredasdorp begin. Hy het op 3 Februarie 1967 trou beloof aan Elize, \u2019n boorling van Stanford en onderwyseres by Medland Prim\u00ear. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Daarna het hy \u2019n pos aan die Luckhoff Sekond\u00eare Skool in Idasvallei, Stellenbosch, aanvaar. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
In die vroe\u00eb sewentigs het hy \u2019n pos aan die Bergrivier Sekond\u00eare Skool aanvaar en na Newton, Wellington, verhuis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In die laat sewentigs het hy hom in die prim\u00eare-onderwys-sektor begewe en \u2019n pos as prinsipaal van \u2019n vyf-man-skool by Rust Stasie NGK Prim\u00ear, tussen Moorreesburg en Malmesbury, aanvaar. Hier het hy talle take, buiten sy pligte as klasonderwyser van grade vyf en ses, asook as skoolhoof, verrig.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Take soos skoolbusbestuurder, noodhulpbeampte, rugbyafrigter en skeidsregter, katkisasiemeester en diaken is aan hom toevertrou, terwyl die Davids-gesin slegs 50 meter van die skoolgebou af gewoon het. Intussen het hy ook deeltyds aan die Universiteit van Suid-Afrika (Unisa) studeer en sy BA-graad in opvoedkunde vroeg in die jare tagtig verwerf.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In 1982 het hy die pos van prinsipaal aan die OJ Erasmus NGK Prim\u00eare skool in Kalbaskraal aanvaar. Hy is kort daarna na Saxon Sea Sekond\u00eare Skool in Atlantis as adjunkhoof gesekondeer. Met die skielike uittrede van die hoof van daardie skool, het hy die tweede skoolhoof van Saxon Sea Sekond\u00ear geword. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Davids is in die vroe\u00eb 1990\u2019s as inspekteur van skole (deesdae kringbestuurder) in die Weskus-onderwysdistrik aangestel \u2013 \u2019n pos wat hy tot en sy aftrede in 1996 beklee het.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hy was ook \u2019n bestuurslid van die Kaapse Professionele onderwysersunie (KPO) onder leiding van dr. Franklin Sonn, in lewe rektor van die Skiereilandse Technikon en later ambassadeur in die VSA. Ander lede het ingesluit Andrew de Laura, die destydse skoolhoof van Schoonspruit Sekond\u00ear, Chris Goliath (oudburgemeester van Malmesbury) en ander onderwyskollegas soos Gilbert Messina, Dolly Marais, Randall van der Heever, George Strauss, David Piedt en andere. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Davids se passie vir kleuterskoolonderrig het tot gevolg gehad dat hy minstens drie kleuterskole in sy tyd help stig het, onder andere in Idasvallei Stellenbosch, Stepping Stones in die Paarl en Vrolike Vinkies in Malmesbury. Hy was \u2019n lid van Die Stigting vir Gemeenskapswerk (FCW) onder leiding van Beulah Fredericksen en was ook \u2019n aktiewe lid van die organisasie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Volgens sy seun, Ervin Davids, was sy pa \u2019n man van integriteit, inbors, empatie vir minderbevoorregtes en trots op sy herkoms. Hy het nie geskroom om sy personeel, kollegas en selfs senior skoolhoofde aan te spreek oor ongedane sake nie en sal nog lank daarvoor onthou word. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Davids word oorleef deur sy vrou van 57 jaar, Elize, drie kinders, sewe kleinkinders en ses agterkleinkinders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2019n Seder het geval; mag sy ge\u00eber word.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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