diplomacy on changing high school classes?

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When I was in high school way back in 1978 and '79, after the first week or two when things were somewhat flexible, it almost took an act of Congress to change classes because it was perceived as criticism of the teacher. It later occurred to me that there might have been a few tricks.

Changing from a premium class to a regular class is not criticism of the teacher, just that the workload is too much, along with home responsibilities, working, etc. And I could have undersold and picked just one of the reasons.

When I was in high school, government was taken in either 11th grade or 12th grade, potentially giving me the perfect opportunity to change from an elective into government. Perhaps from any class which turned just not to be for me, into government. In addition, I sometimes enjoyed being around students one or two years older than myself.

Now, like anything, sometimes socially skilled methods work and something they don't. This is at best a percentage baseball kind of approach, and really, what else could it be (combined with open fields and enough different opportunities to form connections with others! )

Would anyone like to share some more modern methods for diplomatically changing from one high school class to another?

I changed a few classes. I just presented a justification and the school signed off.

I think I dropped a home economics class for a student assistantship by telling them I was interested in becoming a teacher.