text: Students do not get enough free time as it is. Hypothetically speaking, after coming home from a long day at school, a student might want to play for a bit before getting started on his or her arduous homework. From a brief look at the clock, the student realizes that there is no time to play and decides to start on his or her homework while he or she still can. Because the homework that was given to he or she was too much to handle, he or she still did not manage to finish his or her homework even though he or she did set aside play time. While this is no anecdote, a lot of real students go through this, myself included. This, along with the additional extracurricular activity that is probable to give even more homework, proves that students are already incapable of completing homework assignments because they do not get enough free time to do so. Therefore, adding the mandatory extracurricular activities will only drag down the amount of free time students have to have fun and play.