text: The strengths and effects that can be created with the idea of students having to maintain and participate in extracurricular activities are improving students mental health, students creating friendships with one-another, and lastly, the idea of students having to learn to balance extracurricular school activities with school work along with learning how to create more efficient time management skills and being more productive. I believe that students should not have the privilege to use cell phones at school because if the students were able to have there cell phones at free periods they would become to much of a distraction for the students to be able to concentrate, and they would just have that urge to check there phone or they would even check there cell phone for that matter. And that is not fair to the student because he or she should have an equal amount of education. It also wouldn't be fair to the students in the surrounding area or the teacher who has spent he or she's time making the lesson plans.