Should Students Be Forced To Do After School?

How much time do you usually have to yourself when you get home from work or school? For many students, it isn't a very long amount of time and this is only with homework and projects. Some schools are forcing students to take a extracurricular activity. A lot of students wouldn't be able to handle having more to do piled on to them after school. They may have to help their families when they get home or may even have a job they have to go to. Being forced to have more to do after school will only be stressful and counter productive on a student. I believe students shouldn't be forced to participate in extracurricular activities because they may not have time for it, it can be too much on some students, and it takes away from their time to themselves.

Some students leave school only to have to go to a job for so many hours. Whether they have to do this to help support their family or its by their own choice, they won't have time for that and an after school activity. Nobody would be able to hold a job and be forced to do more for their school than they already have to. They might even try to do both at the same time and just end up wearing themselves out everyday and losing sleep because they don't want to fall behind in either. If you
Many students already struggle with just their school work and classes. Adding something else onto them will only cause them to perform worse in their regular work. It also gives them less time to study and do other mandatory activities for school like projects. If they join the after school activities themselves and they feel its too much they can just drop them. However, if they are being forced to participate, they most likely don't have the option to drop it. It's better for a student to be able to decide what their limits are in what they can do everyday than forcing them to exceed these