text: One reason why all students should have to participate in at least one extracurricular activity is because has students get to know new people. A recent article from Generic_School's PTA daily updates have shown that 27% of their students didn't know every one of their classmates. Ever since they established that extracurricular activities are mandatory that percentage has rapidly gone down to 9%. This means that adding in these activities made students get closer to knowing each other. If Generic_School didn't set these rules then what would happen to each student. Maybe there are many kids who don't have someone to talk to but after these boundaries were set they have someone there for them. Not setting these rule on having extracurricular activities have big impacts on student and this can't happen.