DAAR was baie trane, maar ook die gedeelte vreugde aan dekades se goue herinneringe . . .<\/p>\n
Virginia Baartzes (62), \u2019n onderwyseres aan die Hankey Prim\u00eare Skool, het op Woensdag, 31 Julie, haar klaskamer-deur n\u00e1 37 jaar in die onderwys finaal toege-trek.<\/p>\n
Tyd vir agteroorsit. Onstpan. En meer tyd met haar familie.<\/p>\n
Ja, moeilike dae was daar, veral met die veranderinge in die onderwys en kurrikulum, s\u00ea Baartzs. Maar sy verruil niks vir die voorreg wat sy gehad het om haar passie vir onderwys uit te leef en leerders te sien ont-wikkel nie.<\/p>\n
\u201cEk is dankbaar teenoor die skool wat my die ruimte gegee het om my passie uit te leef.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n Grenslose passie<\/b>\n<\/p>\n
Baartzes wou aanvanklik \u2019n verpleegsuster word, maar het oor die jare besef dat skool haar roeping was – dat dit alles deel was van \u2019n ho\u00ebr hand se beskikking. <\/p>\n
\u201cEk het \u2019n baie groot deel van my lewe in die skoolgange en klaskamers deurgebring. Vandag weet ek dit was alles deel van die doel van my lewe.<\/p>\n
\u201cEk is nie een dag spyt dat ek onderwys my beroep gemaak het nie.\u201d<\/p>\n
Baartzes, gebore in Hankey, was \u2019n oud-leerder van die Hankey Prim\u00eare Skool – dieselfde skool waar sy vir die afgelope 36 jaar onderwys gegee het – voor sy graad 12 by die Ho\u00ebrskool Uitenhage voltooi het. <\/p>\n
In 1979 begin sy as student by die Onderwys Kollege in Uitenhage, en in 1982 sluit sy as leerkrag by die Patensie Prim\u00eare Skool aan.<\/p>\n
Slegs \u2019n jaar later verskuif sy na die Hankey Prim\u00eare Skool.<\/p>\n
Hier het sy graad 3- tot graad 7-leerders onder haar vlerk geneem, in onder meer Afrikaans, naaldwerk, sosiale wetenskap, natuurwetenskap en kuns en kultuur.<\/p>\n
Hoogtepunte?<\/p>\n
\u201cElke jaar het nuwe leerders en nuwe uitdagings gehad – en daarom sy eie hoogtepunte,\u201d s\u00ea sy.<\/p>\n
\u201cDit maak my hart vol as leerders wat deur my hande is, as volwassenes suksesvol is: \u2019n dokter, onderwyser of verpleegster. Op die einde ding ons nie teen mekaar mee nie, maar teen onsself.\u201d<\/p>\n
Volgens Baartzes het sy by die Hankey Prim\u00eare Skool die geleentheid gehad om as onderwyser te ontwikkel en te groei.<\/p>\n
\u201cHier kon ek die afgelope jare my passie vir onderwys op vele terreine uitleef. Ek was bevoorreg om saam met kollegas te kon werk wat die belange van die skool op die hart dra en altyd die ekstra myl vir die leerders sal loop.<\/p>\n
\u201cEk sou nie \u2019n ander beroep as onderwyser wou h\u00ea nie. Dit was \u2019n voorreg om saam met soveel wonderlike ouers, personeel, beheerliggaamslede en leerders te werk. Ek is ook veral dankbaar teenoor my familie wat baie opgeoffer en my altyd ondersteun het.\u201d<\/p>\n
Haar raad aan jong onderwysers?<\/p>\n
\u201cOnderwys is \u2019n roeping. Diegene wat dit net as \u2019n werk beskou, sal dit nie maak nie. As \u2019n mens jouself tot die onderwys verbind en aanpas by veranderinge, sal jy suksesvol wees.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n Rustig<\/b>\n<\/p>\n
Baartzes sien baie daarna uit om meer tyd met haar haar man, twee volwasse kinders en kleinkind deur te bring<\/p>\n
En ook om met vakansie gaan. <\/p>\n
Dan is daar haar talle stokperdjies: brei, lees en koekbak.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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