text: People are overwhelmed during school with other things besides extracurricular activities. For instance, most students find themselves dumbfounded when trying to reflect on what the teacher has said in the past hour of not being able to focus. This is most likely due to sleep deprivation or stress. One plausible explanation to explain why a student might not get enough sleep at night is because he or she spent too much time studying or doing homework when he or she should have been sleeping. This is a problem not only because of the lack of energy during integral class time, but also because it causes stress. When students suddenly realize that there is an upcoming test the next morning or there is a massive project due the very next day that they have not even taken a crack at, stress is typically a resulting factor. Even if the student does get to sleep early, he or she may not be able to fall asleep or stay asleep the whole night because of the stress caused by the assignment or assignments due. This will only get built upon when adding even one mandatory extracurricular activity. This is a crucial problem occurring to students, but when asked, they are not willing to admit it to authority figures or even their parents. Therefore, students should not be obliged to participate in extracurricular activities because they might already be overwhelmed with seemingly more important subjects.