Party oorwinnings is soeter as soet. Petrus Lombard van HTS Drostdy in Worcester het sy matriek met ses onderskeidings geslaag. <\/p>\n
Wat sy prestasie merkwaardig maak, is dat Duchenne-spierdistrofie op vyfjarige ouderdom by hom gediagnoseer is \u2013 \u2019n progressiewe siekte waarin die spiere agteruitgaan. <\/p>\n
Di\u00e9 dapper seun het sy skoolloopbaan doelgerig en met ywer aangepak, ten spyte van uitdagings wat die spierdistrofie meegebring het.<\/p>\n
\u201cDis nie akademie nie, dis pret!\u201d begin hy die onderhoud met \u2019n glimlag. Petrus, wat nog kon loop toe hy in die Laerskool Worcester-Oos was, s\u00ea dat hy veiliger voel sedert hy in gr. 8 in die rolstoel skoolgaan. \u201cEk is maar altyd bang vir val, want die medikasie wat ek gebruik, verswak my beendigtheid.\u201d<\/p>\n
Petrus se ouers, Dolf en Susan, het versoek dat hy direk n\u00e1 gr. 8 aangaan met sy gr.10-skooljaar.<\/p>\n
\u201cOns wou graag gehad het dat hy matriek nog self kan skryf,\u201d vertel sy ma, Susan. Ten spyte van die sprong was hy akademies steeds een van die toptien-leerlinge.<\/p>\n
Dit het hy met vlie\u00ebnde vaandels gedoen, ten spyte daarvan dat hy sy been vroeg in sy matriekjaar tydens \u2019n val gebreek het.<\/p>\n
Hy het groot waardering vir sy onderwysers wat die ekstra myl geloop het om hom te ondersteun. \u201cVan hulle het vir my klas by die huis kom gee en ander het vir my videos van die werk gemaak sodat ek nie agter raak nie,\u201d vertel Petrus. <\/p>\n
Van sy hoogtepunte in sy skoolloopbaan was om in vakke soos fisiese en lewenswetenskappe te leer hoe die w\u00eareld werk. Sy uitdagings om in \u2019n hoofstroomskool te matrikuleer, was dat die skooldae soms lank geraak het en hy fisiek moeg was. \u2019n Mens sien \u2019n flikkering in di\u00e9 jong man se o\u00eb wanneer hy vertel dat hy vasberade was om sy matriekjaar te voltooi. <\/p>\n
In sy vrye tyd verdiep hy hom in wetenskapsfiksie met boeke deur onder andere Brandon Sanderson. Hy is lief daarvoor om Modded Minecraft te speel, maar gun homself net \u2019n uur en \u2019n half per dag sodat dit nie sy fokus van die akademie aftrek nie. <\/p>\n
Sy ander groot liefde is skaak, want sy fikse brein is honger vir n\u00f3g uitdagings.<\/p>\n
Hy het in Januarie \u2019n ministeri\u00eble toekenning van die provinsiale minister van onderwys, David Maynier, met die bekendmaking van die matriek-uitslae ontvang. Maar wat hou die jaar, wat so goed begin het, vir hom in? Met wysheid en rustigheid ver bo di\u00e9 van die meeste agttienjariges, vertel Petrus van sy toekomsplanne. \u201cEk gaan vanjaar rekenaarprogrammering aanlyn deur Udemy studeer.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sy voormalige skoolhoof, Louis Steijn, s\u00ea Petrus het by Drostdy nuwe w\u00earelde vir almal oopgemaak. \u201cDie kinders het perspektief gekry en besef nie almal kan rondhardloop nie, maar dat dit \u2019n mens nie hoef terug te hou nie. Hoewel Petrus fisiek verswak het, het hy akademies al sterker geword. Dit was \u2019n groot voorreg om dit te kon sien.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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