JONKER Nel van Somerset-Oos is \u2019n 7-jarige mannetjie wat koerante en boeke lees dat die vonke spat. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
As sy ouers inkopies doen, maak hy hom voor die tydskrifrakke tuis waar hy na hartelus al die nuus op die buiteblaaie kafdraf. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Volgens JJ se ma, Yoland\u00e9, het hulle sedert sy geboorte op 10 Desember 2010 baie aandag aan hom gegee \u2013 \u2019n laatlammetjie, want Pa Jonker senior, was al 68. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
JJ het floreer op al die aandag en op een jaar en drie maande kon sy hom al die hele huis vol stuur om dinge vir haar te gaan haal en elke keer is hy terug met die regte item. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Op een jaar en agt maande het sy vir hom \u2019n l\u00eaer met die letters van die alfabet wat sy uit tydskrifte geknip het, gemaak. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Volgens Yoland\u00e9 het hy op tweejarige ouderdom sy eerste koerantberig gelees. Sy het toe begin om vir hom boekies by Lesers -kring te koop. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ses maande later toe lees hy die hele koerant van voor tot agter. Hier het sy besef dat JJ besonders is. Alhoewel sy aangespoor is om JJ in \u2019n cr\u00e8che te sit, het Yoland\u00e9 geweier en hom eerder by die huis ge-leer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
JJ is op vyfjarige ouderdom skool toe en is tans in gr. 2 in die Prim\u00eare Skool William Oates in Somerset-Oos. Volgens sy klasonderwysers vorder hy bogemiddeld. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Omdat hy so slim is, verbied die onderwysers hom soms om vrae te antwoord sodat ander kinders ook beurte kan kry. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cDit laat hom sleg voel en ongelukkig hou JJ al minder van skool. Die werk is te maklik en hy raak gou verveeld,\u201d vertel sy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cMaar, wiskunde is sy voorkeurvak,\u201d en JJ beaam dit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Jonker spog graag met sy rapporte en sertifikate wat hy deur die paar jaartjies van sy lewe al verwerf het. Die 7\u2019s sit soos krale ingeryg by al sy vakke. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cEk is baie trots as my naam geroep word,\u201d het JJ van die prysuitdelings ges\u00ea. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Toe Mid-Karoo Express <\/i>hom vra wat hy eendag wil word, dink hy nie eens nie, maar skiet sy antwoord blitsvinnig uit: \u201c\u2019n Dokter!\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Volgens Jackie Wansink, een van sy onderwyseresse, is hy \u2019n baie intelligente seun wat 100% vir al sy assesserings kry. Sy vertel ook dat JJ die een is wat die Mid-Karoo Express<\/i> huis toe gedra het en dit is hoe sy ouers uitgevind het van die gratis koerant in die dorp. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sy onderwyseres vir hierdie jaar, Sarah Petrus, voeg by dat hy middae n\u00e1 skool nie wil huis toe gaan voordat sy nie vir hom boeke gegee het om by die huis te gaan lees nie. Tans is sy raadop, want die boeke wat sy gehad het, het hy nou al alles gelees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Die Nel-familie het nie elektrisiteit nie en in die aande sit JJ tot watter tyd by kers-lig en lees. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hy behoort aan die biblioteek en verkies deesdae om Engelse boeke te lees. Hy kan nou ook so \u2019n bietjie isiXhosa praat wat sy derde taal is en op skool aangeleer word en nou leer hy dit sommer ook vir sy ma. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cToe, s\u00ea vir die mevrou wat leer ons nou by die huis,\u201d por Yoland\u00e9. Gou kom die antwoord \u2013 Psalm 23, maar darem in Afrikaans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Yoland\u00e9 voel sterk daaroor dat kinders gedissiplineer moet word en die regte waardes by die ouerhuis geleer moet word. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sy stap steeds saam met JJ skool toe en gaan haal hom ook n\u00e1 skool en dan bly hy by die huis en hou hom daar besig met sy boeke, luister na stories oor die radio of speel op sy ma se selfoon. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cTye het baie verander; kinders word te veel toegelaat en loop net vir kwaadgeld rond.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Alhoewel die Nels dit nie breed het nie, probeer hulle steeds hul bes om vir hul kinders te gee wat hul benodig. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
JJ het \u2019n ouer broer, Algernon, wat klaar is met skool. Hulle is bre\u00ebbors trots op hul jongste en hul grootste wens is dat hulle ge-spaar sal bly en hom sal kan ondersteun tot hy eendag op sy eie voete kan staan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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