text: Extracurricular actives can help you get away from negative things in your life that you might go home to,or face in a school day. These actives can keep you away from those thing because then this is your time to stay at school for a longer and do something you enjoy. These actives can help you get you mind off of thing happening in your life and bad things that happen at school and maybe help you feel less overwhelmed. Not having to go home straight away to do all the homework, and you get to hangout with friends and relax from school work. Program like these have shown that these things help kids do better in school because they have something they enjoy in their day and not be pressured to get good grades and to spend hours on homework everyday to get perfect scores on their test. Students need time to have a time to them self to release stress and have a good time with their friends.