Darrel LeJeune/The Basile Weekly
W. W. Stewart Elementary and Basile High School to welcomed five new teachers for the 2017-2018 school year.
The two new Stewart Elementary teachers are Tiffany Boutte and Randi Daigle. The three new educators at Basile High are Jerome Perron, Jessie Daigle, and Christina LeJeune.
W.W. Stewart
Tiffany Boutte is a fourth grade teacher. She is 25 years old and this is her first year as a full time teacher. The Pine Prairie native is now a Basile resident and is the mother of two children and is engaged to Taylor Johnson.
A 2010 Pine Prairie High graduate, she received her bachelor of science from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette in 2016 and is certified to teach grades one through five. She is teaching science, social studies and English/Language Arts to the school’s fourth graders.
Randi Daigle is a special education teacher. She is 38 years old and beginning her 17th year in the classroom, having taught at Iota Middle School in Iota and Central Middle School in Eunice in prior years. At Stewart she is teaching a pre-kindergarten autism class.
She is a 1997 Eunice High graduate, is a native Eunice, and continues to reside there with her two boys. She received a bachelor of arts degree in elementary education in 2000 and her special education degree in 2002.
Basile High
Jerome Perron is a math teacher at teaching pre-algeba to eighth graders, algebra II to juniors, and advanced math to seniors. This is the 32-year-old’s first year as a teacher.
He is a native of Eunice where he resides with his wife, the former Heather Lafleur, and their three children.
He is a 2003 graduate of St. Edmund High School and graduated from McNeese State University with a business and management degree. He is certified to teach grades six through 12 .
Jessie Daigle is a sixth grade math teacher. She is 35-years-old and is beginning her second year in education. Last year she taught first grade at Redemptorist Catholic in Crowley.
She is an Iota native and currently resides there with her three children.
She is a 2000 Iota High graduate and received her bachelor’s degree in 2016. She is certified to teach grades one to six.
Christina LeJeune is teaching agriscience and welding to students in grades nine to 12 and serving as the Future Farmers of America advisor. She is 33-years-old and is a Mamou native now living in Basile. She and her husband, Robert, a Basile High grad, have four boys.
A 2002 Mamou High graduate, she graduated from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette in 2008 with a bachelor of science degree with a major in agriculture education and a minor in biology
She is certified to teach agriscience, biology, welding, electricity and small engines.
This marks her 10th year in education. Previously, she taught at Mamou High.