text: The participation of every student in extracurricular activities once a week is essential, and an extraordinary idea. Although school already takes about 8 hours a day, staying after school at least four times a month is a valid usage of your time. Gives everyone a chance to discover new hobbies or make some of their old ones even better, it helps the students release stress and find new friends but most importantly it increases a healthier life with fewer bad decisions. Having the chance of staying after school gave me the possibility to make one if my closest friends, and to win many middle school MUN conferences. Overall the effect of after school on students is positive. Imagine this. A world that caused you to suffocate when you opened your house door. No this is not a water world, just the poison-filled atmosphere caused by the doing of the last century or so. Since cars entered the time of modern technology, pollution began. More and more people purchased cars for their own wishes, desires, and/or conviniences that continously added on to the killing of the world. Now go forward in time. We're in the 1960's. This is the time scientists started to understand that the ozone layer began to appear with holes in it allowing dangerous U.V light to enter. This U.V is causing the water to rise, is now one big source of skin cancer, and many different detromental factors that destroy or will cause the destruction of a panoply of environments. All of this due to a good amount humans not having the energy or the will to find other means of transport.