text: Students should be required to participate in extracurricular activities, such as a sports team or being apart of student council, because one thing it can do in the students favor is help students become more social and out going. Students will have to do things like work with other students, give speeches, present to large numbers of people, etc. Doing all of those things can help a student branch out. Being on a team or part of a club gives students peers to work with. After working with those people, students tend to stick with them and over time become friends. It is very hard for some people, especially at this age, to make friends and being apart of a team or club gives them the advantage.