Extra curricular activities should be made compulsory in school

I firmly believe that extra curricular activities should be a part of a child's daily curriculum. The human brain tends to lose interest while focusing on only technical knowledge resulting in decreased output of the individual.

These extra curricular activities not only help in diverting the child's mind from a monotonous study schedule but also increases the creativity of the child. Not all children are born doctors and engineers. Many are born as artists, musicians etc. They can explore their creative sides after indulging in these co-curricular activities.

Rightly said, "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy"!

Yes. Extracurricular activities are must for the school students. It will help them to more active and express their new thinking of mind.

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I could already see that many schools are providing compulsory periods and time for extra curricular activities. But, we can notice that in most of the Indian schools, it is 90% studies and 10% of extra curricular activities or sometimes 80% studies and 20% will be the time allotted for extra curricular activities. And I've even seen kids sitting and studying during PT periods for the test conducted the next period. So, I think extra curricular activities can be made optional and kids who are really interested in sports or arts must be encouraged to pursue that instead of studies. For them it should be 80% sports or arts and 20% studies.

Some students will always be interested to study. They should be encouraged to continue studies 90% and allowed to do other activities for 10% of the time. The behavior, interest and activities of students have to be monitored since their childhood and proper coaching have to be provided to them in whatsoever they might be interested.

Schools rather than pushing the students to master in all at once should make them choose their area of interest and guide them to master in one particular field at once. In India, there are many students who are really interested in sports, but who don't have guidance to purse them. These should change as soon as possible and this change can be made only by the schools.

So extra curricular activities rather than being compulsory in all schools should be optional up to the students choice and encouragement have to be given for both the students who want to master in studies and also for those who want to master in other fields.

For bringing about a major change in India, simply making extra curricular activities as compulsory one in schools will not be the solution. And as I stated earlier this is already been adopted by many schools but there are no effects of such in student's success in activities other than studies. So, a different approach has to be followed in order to achieve real success.

Yes, definitely. Extra curricular activities not only helps in developing our personality but they also help us in becoming extrovert. Students involved in carricular activities are comparatively happier and less likely to commit suicides. Generally carricular activities include activities apart from education such as being part of sports, involved in philanthropic work etc. People have greater chances of interacting with other work age groups which reduces anti social behaviour.

It was also found in a study that people who are not doing any extra carricular activities are more shy, introvert and they avoid coming first publicly. Thus for overall develoment of any human being he or she must be encouraged to partcipate in any sort of those activities. Without the development of humans no country can develop.

Hello friends,

As our Group Discussion topic is Extra curricular activities should be compulsory in school.

I would like to say that extra curricular activities must be compulsory in school.

First of all I would like to introduce what is the meaning of extra curricular activities.

Anything that is apart from our school education like learning a new language, learning computer, self-development programme etc.

Now let me tell you the merits of this kind of programme.

The merits of this kind of programme is so much. Apart from our education system the students get knowledge of some other fields which is really benificial.

When a students reach to college they face many problems as in many schools there is not good education system. Those schools are unable to growth the children mind. As we know the way you will shape your mind in childhood it will effect you adulthood.

So if schools will start providing this kind of extra education to the students then it will be benificial to the students.

I think the extracurricular activities are compulsory for students because students need some rest from studies.

Hello, everyone!

I am writing for the motion, i.e., extra curricular activities should be made compulsory in schools, reasons been-.

Health- It is very well known that 'healthy mind resides in a healthy body', extracurricular activities helps us to remain healthy and fit.

Team Work- Many extracurricular activities involve working in teams, and thus teaches the importance of teamwork, leadership and makes us capable of working in teams. Thus, they help us to become extrovert and also strengths the bond that we share with other classmates.

Stress Removal- Most of the schools operate nearly for around 7-9 hours, a student has to continuously study for around 6. 5-8. 5 hours (30 minutes of lunch break), so having a period of extracurricular activities may result very helpful for the students, who are fed up with continuous hours of study.

Helps to find your true talent- Most of the students don't really know what they are good at, and may not perform well in studies, so having extracurricular activity, may help to find their true talent, which them self were not aware of, hey may not be good in studies but may be better in music or dance or painting or playing etc.

Thus, to lead a balanced life, healthy and enjoyable life, I do think that extra-curricular activities should be made compulsory.

Extracurricular activities should be made compulsory in school. In modern time, competition is very tough & normally, schools operate 7-9 hours a day. In such time, if the child will not come in contact with extracurricular activities then he/she will become a part of monotonous and stressful life. Although, extracurricular activities make our body fit and healthy. And healthy mind resides in the healthy body. Students who take part in extracurricular activities, perform very well in studies.

Hello everyone, In my point of view, I think that extra curricular activity is very much needed for all the students. It can give pleasure to the students during his regular study pressure. Student's internal talent would be expressed by the extracurricular activities, someone can sing or dance or draw or can play sports very well. Their such talents will be expressed only in this section in school. It will also help them to be social and extrovert. So I think that it will be better if there is an another optional section of extra curricular activities. Then the students who are interested in participating in this section, will easily get the opportunity to express himself in that platform. But if it will be compulsory, then it will become an extra burden on the students, who are not interested in extracurricular activities or who are very serious for their exams. As a result instead of being pleasured by this, they will be pressurized by this. Then it may affect their studies and mental health. So I think it should make optional in school, not compulsory, as only the interested students gladly can take part in this section when they are free from their studies. Only then they can continue their extra curricular activities as well as their studies.

Thank you.

Yes, extra curricular activities should be made compulsory as we all are aware of the competition in every field. For that our confident attitude plays a very important role and all this comes from such activities. These are not only preparing you for facing stage fears but also brings a leadership and teamwork quality so that later you will be able to work and coordinate with team, so if students will get such activities earlier, they can later on make themselves capable of working in such environment where we have to work in coordination.