“… Guth was an academic star at his high school. He already had passed several AP courses with high test scores. Why force him, he asked, to take courses he didn’t need? He would lose two precious class periods for which he had other plans, such as orchestra. He eventually got the school to drop the seminar requirement for biology, but he had to give up on AP physics.” …
Ridiculous, but if it’s school policy (sounds like it is), the student should have known that.