text: Secondly having students join after school activities may allow them to find skills that they possess in an area that they have not yet discovered. This is important because many students may only know about their skills that are taught in a classroom for a specific subject, rather than finding skills they hadn't known they had in a topic not taught in classrooms. One example, would be my father who had never taken any extracurricular activities which had lead him to think the only skills he had were those that were taught in the classroom. Once he had gotten to high school it was recommended to take one or more clubs, so he had decided to take a computer class. When he had finished the year, he had realized that he had a skill in working with computers and that their were other skills to be learned other than those taught in classrooms. This is important because it had created new job opportunities for him, and allowed him to discover skills he thought he never had. Furthermore, I can relate to this because I had allows thought that math and science were my only strengths and skills. This was the case because I had never really wanted to join an after school activity because I had thought they were a waste of time, until I had decided to take a stock market club which made a huge impact on my life. It was very important because I earned a passion for it and to this day I am still intrigued by the topic.