“All honors classes taught in the high school get +5%” - Not at all high schools.
“when one of the kids explained how they beat the system.” - …while wasting their time and focusing on the wrong thing. This is a waste of all kind of resources that could be devoted to much more productive and rewarding activity that “beating the system”. So miserably pitiful, kids who will continue this later are plain LOOSERS. Others are talking about them in a very negative term.