text: Being a full time student takes a whole lot of time away from friends and family and having an extra curricular takes up even more of that time. Being with the people you love is so important so why wouldn't schools want to promote and value that rather than force their students to have schedules full of an unnecessary extra curricular that a student may not even want to do. What if you wanted to go to the mall with your cousin whos only in town for the weekend but you can't miss soccer so instead you spend 2 hours running laps and passing a ball, it would make anyone like that sport a little less.