Midway through the school year usually means midterm exams for New Jersey students. But that won’t be the case for everyone this month. Several New Jersey schools have either canceled midterms or scaled back the difficulty of exams this year. Officials cited the stresses caused by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic or the increase in required quarantine periods due to high case counts that have cut down on time to prepare. The decision to cut back on midterms for some schools also comes on the heels of students and parents sharing concerns over the mental toll of reckoning with a pandemic for a thi…