text: Here some other reasons why, you should not need to take a extra curricular activity to pass the school year. Taking a extracurricular activity can create a loss in productivity. First it can make them want to stop trying to get good grades, simply by giving the student a lot of work and barely any time to relax. Second it can stop the student focus dead in it's tracks, just because there is a little too much work for the student to keep going and work. Third