text: Students are busy, either with homework, studying, family, and friends, juggling it all is hard enough. If students are being forced to add another thing to their plate are they really being set up for success? For example if a brand new high school student just moved to town and was already very stressed about catching up in classes, taking tests, and making new friends, being told they need to join an extracurricular would just make things harder. It would be better if they got time to do everything they needed and maybe choose to play a sport with some friends they made the next year or maybe sign up for yearbook, but by choice not because they had to.