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Extracurricular activities are vital for students, providing opportunities to develop social skills, enhance academic performance, and improve future prospects. Participating in these activities helps students meet peers with similar interests, learn teamwork, and build leadership skills. Moreover, involvement in extracurriculars reduces dropout rates and boosts grades by alleviating stress. By balancing family, friends, academics, and extracurriculars, students develop time management skills that are essential for success. Embrace after-school activities to enrich your educational journey!
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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.
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!