Lacey Maness
English 1
April 10, 2015
The Dangers or Benefits of Extracurricular Activities

From volleyball practice to softball practice, to cheer and on top of that seven hours of school? There’s barely enough time to stop and breathe, much less worry about hours of homework. Even though these after school activities take up so much time, there is still education on the line that needs to be worried about. Extra curricular activities harm students in improving their education and can cause physical harm to their body.
All of these practices after school on top of high school, homework, trying to advance to the next grade and graduation. For example, school for seven hours plus volleyball, softball and cheer that’s an extra five hours added to a regular school day. That’s outrageous! Nearly a fourteen hour day plus hours and hours of homework for English, algebra and biology. There’s barely enough time to stop and take a breath between practices, much less spend all these extra hours drowning in homework and trying to keep grades up just to keep a smile on mom and dads face. Choosing just a few extra curricular activities instead of 4 and 5 can help reduce the stress overload. And to help keep a steady focus on passing all of the main course classes, graduating high school, and being happy.
Extra curricular activities can also cause physical harm to a young person’s body. Stress fractures, pulled muscles and broken bones is happening more often than it should in young people by too much stress being applied to a growing body. Five extra hours of stress being applied to muscles isn’t much help either. Young teenagers should not be applying this much harm to their bodies, because their bodies aren’t even done growing yet, pulling muscles and breaking bones is slowing that process down. Without several extra curricular activities causing so much harm to the body, teenagers bodies could make healthier impacts on their lives.
Therefore, extra curricular activities harm students in education and physically hurting their brains and bodies. Extra curricular activities harm students in many ways that can influence to lack of success