text: The Final reason I think that Students should not have to do an extracurricular activity is because the school shouldn't control outside of your curricular life. The school already takes up plenty of your time. Students go to school for five days a week and roughly between six and seven hours a day with a couple exceptions. We devote plenty of time to school and the school should not take up anymore of a students time. Students Should use their own time however they want without being forced to do an activity. If someone really wanted to do an extracurricular activity that bad, they wouldn't need to be forced into doing it.