text: Extracurricular activities should not be mandatory for a lot of reasons. Extracurricular activities should not be mandatory because every student may not be interested in the activities. Some students are already busy outside of school and don't have time for an extracurricular activity. These activities can interfere with our personal lives and cause unessacery stress for students. Extracurricular activities do more bad then good for us students. The activities could cause stress and take time away from our day and students may get bored or loose interest. Making everyone participate in an extracurricular activity is not a good idea.