text: Someone might say that, it will allow students to make new friends. Making new friends is always a good idea. But what if those student were planing on seeing their friends. They wouldn't be able to because they had to do these extracurricular activities. Also their friends might not be in the same activity as them. Another argument would be that it would help students stop being so lazy. We have no idea of what their home life is like. What if after school they were supposes to watch their siblings. Or maybe was supposes to clean the house and do chores. It would take time out from helping their parents to do something the kid doesn't even want to do.