Why Students Should Attend Extracurriculars

By: Mara Spector

Extracurriculars and why you should attend them:

• An extracurricular is any before/after school activity that includes a group of people

• Involvement in extracurriculars reduces the chances you will drop out of school.

• Extracurriculars help with the social aspect, your future and your academic performance.

Social Aspects:

• These activities allow students to meet new people, work in groups, and enhance their social skills.

• Extracurriculars help them to meet new people who most likely have the same interests as them

• This also allows students to learn how to work in groups and learn compromise.

Future:

• Attending extracurriculars allows students to have a better chance at getting into a good school as well as job.

• Schools look for activities that will build up your group working skills as well as leadership.

• These activities allow students to become more organized as well as manage their time.

• They learn to manage time by balancing family, friends, school/homework, and their extracurricular.

Academic Improvement:

• Like I mentioned in the first slide the school drop out rate is very high, almost 1.2 million students drop out of high school each year.

• With extracurriculars your chances of dropping out decrease.

• In addition, your grades increase, one reason this is possible is because these activities reduce stress

• These activities also help you learn life lessons that you cannot learn in a classroom.

Examples of Extracurricular Activities

Soccer

Book Club Yearbook

Basketball

Dance

Extracurricular Activities

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In Conclusion…

• Extracurriculars help students socially, academically, and their future.

• So next time you hear an announcement about an after school activity think about joining!