text: In conclusion, improving social skills and seeing other perspectives is a good way of saying that people should ask more than one person for advice. School days are very long, due to that students don't get to spend enough of their own free time. A standard school day is anywhere between 6-7 hours and that takes up almost one third of a students day. So why should students take another 1 or 2 hours to participate in extracurricular activities? I believe students don't need to participate in after-school activities because they should spend their free time however they want, they may also have issues to take care of at home, and not everyone likes the extracurricular activities.