Amber Baylis
Meet Amber Baylis, 17, the student board member of the Education Foundation of Sarasota County.
Amber started her senior year at Riverview High School with a 5.1 weighted GPA.
Q . How does the reality of this school year differ from how you envisioned your senior year?
A. This definitely is not how I thought my senior year would go. I never expected to be attending classes through Zoom while my peers are sitting in classrooms. But my father is immunocompromised due to cancer, and I can’t risk being around a lot of people every day and taking something home that will endanger his health. He’s a single parent, so he’s all my 14-year-old sister and I have.