Popularity is already ridiculosly easy to rack up though. Maybe not earlygame but once you hit about 10 popularity pretty much every weekend action is an opportunity to increase popularity. Discipline gets docked a bit but you can manage that by giving out public punishments over the next week.
For popularity it doesn't matter, which is my question, it will be easier if the grades will increase as before when the discipline is between 31 to 40 then the grades will increase every day. But now no matter how much discipline it seems the value will not increase, but in fact it can only decrease if discipline is low.
Thank you for the answer. Previously I had reached chapter 2 but I chose to stop playing and wait for the latest update which will be out soon, discipline has not reached 60 so I don't know grades can still increase on condition that after chapter 2 or using cheats, I ask to make it easier to get popularity and grades because I always play while looking for the fastest way to finish the game (number of days in the game), even though it takes longer because of "save & load" to get the desired result. Previously grades could easily increase in chapter 1 but now it can only happen in chapter 2, my previous grade had never reached 100 because the previous version I played didn't need to reach 100, and the latest update that I played, I was lazy to collect grades up to a hundred to complete game, so I solved it with a cheat (only adding grades). But I hope in the next latest update I want to start over again without using cheats. Because using cheats it feels so less fun.