text: The first reason is,Getting students involved would help students to have something to look froward to throughout the day. Most students have nothing to look froward to in a normal school day other than little things such as talking to your friends in between blocks or lunch,but with extracurricular activities they have something big to keep them going till the end of school. For many people,such as myself,school is a prison without bars where your forced to learn stuff that you dont want to learn,but with extracurricular activities it feels like you get a choice in what you do.