text: Extracurricular activities benefit students in their performance in the classroom, attainability of higher education, and physical and mental health. However, the specific decision of the principal should be changed as students may already participate in extracurricular activities not provided by the school. For example, one may take piano lessons with a private teacher, or play on a travel soccer team with no association to the school. By forcing these students to have to pick up another extracurricular activity that is provided by the school, they may become overwhelmed with trying to manage their busy schedules. Then, all of the positive attributes of physical activities fall apart. This reason is why the decision of the principal should be changed so that only students who do not participate in any extracurricular activity of any kind will be required to take one. Otherwise, there will be drawbacks to the principal's otherwise good intentions.