text: First off, Sports, Sports are probably the most important thing in many of students lives. Sports are getting them scholarships pushing them to get better grades, and become healthier people overall. But when a student joins a sports team he is taking precious time away from his day where he could be doing his homework, spending time with his family, or even babysitting his little sister so his mom dosen't have to pay extra money for a babysitter. Sports are an extracurricular activity and so is yearbook club, and robotics club, but they all have the same effect on students, a negative one. When one person has to deal with all of this at once their output is stress, lots of stress. Stressed students get bad grades even when they're striving to get them up, stressed students make bad decisions, and stressed student are more grumpy, and snappy. All of these different emotions piled up causes students to try and find a different output, and that's where drugs, and alcohol come in, they strike when a student is weak. But thats not the only negative side effect of out of school activities because they really do destroy your grades