text: In this day and age, freedom is a right many students do not feel they have. They are required to go to school for eight hours. After school, homework, studying or helping out around the house must be done. While those tasks are time consuming, the typical student should have enough time to participate in at least one extracurricular. However, the principle of controlling the time a student has after school is not right. Freedom is making a choice based on what one desires. It is not choosing to do something because it is mandatory. With this new rule, students will feel locked into something they did not consent to. The feeling of independence will inevitably dull. This rule would send the message that freedom, the concept the United States was founded upon, is not a priority in education.