Jersey City Grading System

A problem that is consistent through Jersey City Public schools is the grading system. The schools system weights homework as 5% of a marking period’s average but gives tests 40%. Ever since this change has been made the attitude and teaching style over the district has worsen. In majority of my classes the teachers focus more on preparing students for the test rather than preparing them for the world. There is less teaching being done in the class and more on how an exam should be perceived. This method does prepare students for college and the SAT by training their brain to be adapted to a test taking environment; however, it prevents these students from thinking critically. Richard William (Prince Ea) discusses worldwide issues, and in one of his videos he quoted Fredrick J Kelly, the man who designed standardized tests, and said that these tests are “too crude to be used and should be abandoned”.
This issue does exist outside of Jersey City and there are organizations, such as Neste, are dedicated to changing the school system. A graduate from my school, Mussab Ali, has been tackling this issue for a year now in JCBOE. The value of education has dramatically risen, but the access to valuable education has decreased. This dilemma is of importance to me because it impacts the future of every student in Jersey City including mine. To give everyone a chance at a better future is to improve their education and the first step of doing this is to educate the students attending these schools and the parents of these students about how crude the system