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<p>And my impression is that you automatically discount any accounts which don’t accord with your known experiences beyond those you know like your D. </p>
<p>Since NYC is such a large urban school system, there are likely going to be some variations depending on the principal, school(s) concerned, and individual teachers/curricular concerns within each subject/school. </p>
<p>After all, the teaching experiences and demands on teachers at my old neighborhood’s zoned high school are likely to be very different than high schools in neighborhoods like Bayside, Flatbush, or moreso…high schools like Midwood or Bronx Science during the same given period.</p>
<p>I doubt that has changed in the last twenty years due to the wide variation and needs of each school, neighborhood, and local community.</p>