text: School is exhausting, your working for hours on end repeating the same lessons over and over doing the same boring thing every day. How could this not effect the mental health of students? They need something to take there mind off of everything. Something to relieve them of all the pilled up stress they have been lifting. After school clubs and sports can not only improve their mental and physical health but it can lift the burden off there shoulders for a moment of the day. It can be a place away from all of their hassle of school work and tests. Mandated extra curricular activities keep kids sane, they are exactly what stressed kids need to get a break from everything.