text: The first reason why I disagree with forcing a student to participate in an extracurricular activity is because it can be a distraction from their work as an average student has to spend an extra 1-2 hours of their sleep doing their homework and projects due to other activities such as chores. With enough jobs to cut hours out of their sleep, it does not make any sense to expect students to have to do extra work since most extracurricular activities want or expect work of its session. It just doesn't make any sense for a student who doesn't want to join an extracurricular activity to be forced to join and do extra work there.