text: Overall, extracurricular activity should be required because it helps the teams, trains students for different activities, and puts kids into a social environment. It is very beneficial to anyone on a healthy team. Why would someone ask multiple people for advice? Well I'm here to tell you! Many people want more than one input or opinion on something, they don't really want to make a decision right away, or the second a conflict comes up. Wouldn't you want the best advice you can get? Well I know I would!