text: Here are some of the first reasons why, you should not need to take a extracurricular activity to pass the school year. Taking a extracurricular activity can cause lots of stress to a student by, first making the student get lower grades, because they have to split their focus to two things at once therefore making the student worried about if he or she will pass the year. Second can make the students upset, by making the student do more work then they need. Third it can drive the students insane, by making the students do way too much school work. Those were some reasons why, you should not need to take a extracurricular activity to pass the school year.