HOMESTEAD — Janiya Baker considers herself to be a modest university student.
“I am a quite humble person,” she mentioned. “I like to cheer and I like style.”
But one particular point Baker remaining out is that she is earning heritage in Miami-Dade County by getting to be the first pupil to jump from ninth grade to 12th in a person yr.
“She claimed, ‘Mom, I just want to be a senior. I want to finish and I want to place my foot in the floor. I want to be acknowledged as Janiya Baker: The woman who went from nine to 12 in one 12 months,'” said Baker’s mother Jasmine Gary.
And she is surely producing her name acknowledged. At 16 several years outdated, Baker is not only a senior at Homestead Senior High College — she also retains the best GPA in her class.
“My education and learning is very critical to me,” she explained. “It arrives in advance of any exercise. If my instruction isn’t really suitable, I am not carrying out anything at all else.”
Properly, she is undoubtedly accomplishing anything right. Baker’s mother said ever because she was born, she was way past her age.
“Due to the fact Janiya was like 7 months, I found she was really innovative,” Gary said. “She was off the bottle at seven months and was walking early. She was talking, she was stating sentences incredibly early — I claimed to myself: ‘This lady is incredibly accelerated.'”
So what was Mom’s reaction when her outstanding, minor female told her she was prepared to be a senior?
“I was like, ‘Let’s do it! You might be good ample, you’ve got exemplified that you can do this,” she explained. “You happen to be an example. You are certainly a chief to your peers and you will find no 1 like you, and I enjoy that about you. Do your matter, female.'”
So how did Baker realize this major accomplishment? She mentioned a ton of tough work, determination, determination and a lot guidance.
“My peers allow me know that they’re really motivated and that I am an inspiration to them and their young siblings that they want to do the similar,” she reported.
“She represents her loved ones very nicely, and we’re very pleased of her,” Gary reported. “We are very pleased that she created historical past. She is continuing to make record. She’s all over the place all about the earth and we’re very pleased of her.”
Baker explained she would like to go to FIU and significant in business enterprise. Her objective is to be an entrepreneur and have her possess vogue line.
