text: You might not think it but no one wants to have stress. Not even people that say they want to have stress. Some students have a very tight schedule and can't add anything else to it. Their day is filled to the brim with things to do and it is stressful enough already. Giving that, imagine how stressful they would get when the principal said that they had to do an extracurricular activity and they had no choice. It would be like a death sentence to them. I got a lot of stress too back then, and it was not pretty. Worrying and being desperate are not things I would want other students or me to experience. Having to have an activity to do for school is a breeze for some students; to others though, it could be quite the opposite. Forcing students to have an extracurricular activity has a negative effect instead of a positive one on students.