@FallGirl A few students did not take environmental on purpose. Their parents made a choice to have them not take it so they could take it in 9th grade as an honors class. All honors classes taught in the high school get +5%. When you take the class in 8th grade it is enriched like an honors class, but the students are not given +5%. All 8th grade classes are included on the final transcript. These students then took honors bio as an elective for a second science, which also gave them +5%. The kids who had taken earth science in 8th and were taking honors bio in 9th couldn’t take another honors class for an elective, since they were not allowed to move on to Chem or a more advanced math.
So those kids didn’t get +5% for an elective either. My D’s group of friends only realized this later when one of the kids explained how they beat the system.
It is done!