text: Do not make kids feel like they have to do something. Forcing extracurricular activities is not the principals choice, would effect teams performances, and create issues with time. You can not forget this would also be adding a lot more stress. Students already worry about due dates and upcoming tests that adding another set of this would increase anxiety and maybe even depression. So let students choose if they participate in extracurricular activities. In the story A Cowboy Who Rode Waves there is a boy named Luke Bomberger and hes friend Don Reist. Don invited Luke on a cattle boat and Luke could not say no . Luke and Ron went on the trip and got to be a Seagoing Cowboys. Both of them love to be a Seagoing Cowboys. Both of them think every body should do it. It was free to do what they loved and got pade for it.