The saying that you can be whatever you want to be if you work hard for it, is what this story is all about.
A longtime Port Barre, Louisiana school janitor at Port Barre Elementary School, Joseph, “Gabe” Sonnier, was named the school’s next principal Friday by the Saint Landry School Board.
Sonnier was a janitor at the school for 27 years but continued his education, earning a bachelor and master’s degree while there.
Sonnier said, “I would come to work at like five in the morning and leave for seven and go to school all day and then come back and finish up my eight hours of work here, and go home and do homework.”
When many would’ve given up on their dreams, Sonnier decided to continue through the struggle.
“God knows the time. God knows the season,” Sonnier said. “There’s a season for everything, and this is my time, and I feel it and I know it.”
