text: While yes, the students do get to choose what activity they want to do, what if none of the activities interest them? What if they want to focus on school and not do that. They should be given the choice whether they want to or not. At school, we dont have much control over things, and this is an example of something that was need to be in control of, why should this be mandatory? If we dont want to do an activity and focus on school work instead, then we should have the choice if we want to or not.