VIDEO: The Most Inspirational Story You’ll See This Week

Share This...Not Your Oats & More In the most inspirational story you'll see this week, meet Joseph "Gabe" Sonnier. Sonnier used to spend his days at Port Barre Elementary school as a janitor, clearing up after everyone else had gone home. Now, he is the principal of the same school. Back in 1985 the then-principal of the school changed Gabe's life by pulling him aside and telling him "I'd rather see you grading papers than picking them up". Sonnier told CBS that he had dropped out of university in 1979, and began working to help his struggling mother pay the bills. At the age of 39, he decided to go back to school and study, while still keeping on his janitorial job. Speaking to KATC, Sonnier said; "I would come to work at like 5 in the morning and leave at 7 and go to school all day and then come back and finish up my eight hours of work here and then go home and do homework." In 2008 he went from janitor to teacher at Port Barre Elementary, after earning his Bachelor's degree, and went on to earn a master's degree in education. Weeks before Christmas last, he was made Port Barre Elementary's principal. "I always tell them it's not where you start, it's how you finish." Indeed. Share This… Not Your Oats & More