Has fudging scores become the student problem or is it on the building staff ? The New York City Department Of Education(DOE) is auditing 300 different schools because of fudged scores made by staffers on regent exams. I felt that the regents exams were really irrelevant to my soon to become college degree because only students in New York had to take this test. Outside of New York state regents scores dont apply to colleges.
"One of the schools in Prospect Heights called BSMT(Brooklyn School For Music and theater) was audited for fudging numbers" said Lindsey Christ a reporter for NY1 . Even though Prospect Heights has four different high schools as a student that attended one of the four called Base High School (Brooklyn Academy Of Science And The Enviornment) could have possibly been affected as well. Some schools are calling former students back who have to finish their high school requirements in order to graduate.
Students are being called drop outs because of the missing requirements. The DOE has purposed to making changes on the school policies to ensure that fudging never happens again by no longer letting the teachers grade their own students regents exams. The regents exams are also tightening the rules on something called "Credit Recovery". This is a policy that allows students to quickly make up classes they failed so they can graduate. This makes me raise the question if my school old high school BASE could have been affected by it too.