text: Another reason students don't participate in extracurricular activities is because their parents don't want them to. Most extracurricular activities take place after school and parents might not have the time pick up their kids from school because of their work hours. They might too busy to pick up kids or they live far from the school and it takes too much time to get to school. The parents might not want their child to take the activities because they want to spend more time together with their family and taking extracurricular activities might take away that family time. The parents also might not want their child so interested in the activity that he/she would stop caring about school and academics and do bad in school.