What you think about compulsory extracurricular activities

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I live in Poland, I had an individual course of learning (homo schooled) since elementary school by the teacher from the school, because i behaved inappropriate interfere with conduct of lessons etc.

Then no one knew that I had Asperger's syndrome, psychologists and psychiatrists think that I have ADHD, so they decided to better place my at individual learning.
I improved my grades my teachers liked my they told my that i'm very intelligent and praised my mom.

A little off topic, but recently I read in a magazine that my country's education ministry is planning to introduce compulsory extra-curricular activities. Apparently in other EU countries such as the UK is now slowly introduced, or are planning to shorten the summer holidays because they don't want be worse than other UE Nation

WTF!?

They make the school a f.... gulag or so???

Does student doesn't have right to have free time,
Grow a nation, of damn workaholics, on place of this student i will leave right after the last lesson, not staying for compulsory extracurricular activities, what the "teacher" do shoot them from backside of their skull, like the soviet did.

I don't knew who invented the extracurricular activities the Asians? Or maybe Americans. I love to study and the school but i make it from my free will.

Frankly I did not do anything that anyone ever told me, and if someone forced me doing it in such a way that the person then bitterly regretted that forced me to do it.

Now I'm not that kind of person but still very price of my freedom and independence.

I never really attended school, let alone any extra-curricular activities, so I don't really know what they're like.

However, I think this could do something to bridge that achievement gap between kids who have pushy parents and those who don't. I think this will only work if the activities are free (some people can't even afford the uniforms, let alone any extra costs), and the teachers are appropriately compensated for the extra work they'd be expected to do.

A danger exists that these extra-curricular activities could end up as a means for the school to break labour law. When I was at school we had extra-curricular activities which included cleaning work on the school site.

It reminds me of the part in Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens where Mr Nickleby is at a "school" named Dotheboys Hall.

In the book the nasty headmaster (Squeers) enslaved the boys and made them do work such as weeding his garden, claiming that the gardening was a Botany lesson.

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Diagnosed under the DSM5 rules with autism spectrum disorder, under DSM4 psychologist said would have been AS (299.80) but I suspect that I am somewhere between 299.80 and 299.00 (Autism) under DSM4.

compulsary extra-curricular activities are no longer extra-curricular if you ask me...
i am on your page, as a student/schoolkid, you need your free time, that is when you develop worthful lifeskills (even moreso if you are on the spectrum)

I find it easier to do homework earlier in the day so staying later would make it harder for me to get my homework done.

If extra-curricular activities are made compulsory, then the ruling body should foot the bill.

I mean, if you're going to order some kid to take up football, you should at least provide the uniforms, the shoes, the medical insurance ...

Insanity.

Extracurricular activities suck.

Also how much choice of extra caricular activities are there in Poland?

If they did that when I was in school I would have refused to go. Actually I did that a lot for regular school too.

How are kids going to get too and from these activities? Unless they are directly after school (or transportation was provided), at the school, and the buses come later not everyone can get there. When I was growing up my household did not have a car, none of my relatives would have driven me anywhere, and we couldn't have afforded cabs all the time. We couldn't have afforded extracurricular activities that cost extra either.