Controversial Issus-Extra-Curricular Activities

I think extra-curricular activities are hard to balance, but with the right mind-set teachers and kids can do it.  I know form experience. I cam from a sports driven school and was sometimes frustrated with all of the school we would miss for sports, but not for music. I love being busy, so I found myself in almost every club and extra-curricular activity I could. Along with all of these activities, I was a waitress at Pizza Hut. That is definitely a lot on ones plate. I know elementary school students are not near as busy, but they still have their fair share of duties to participate in. I think elementary is where we can develop a students work ethic. In elementary we can teach them that work comes before play in an attempt to manage this in high school when extra-curricular activities and sports come into play. For instance in our school, we got out of school for every state game possible. Teachers made sure students knew that homework came first, and may have gave them a little more just because they were missing something. With all this stress on the importance of homework, elementary teachers need to also teach their students the importance of extra-curricular activities and being involved. I believe by doing this, it will teach everyone time management and the importance of being on a team and working with people. School is the most important, but so are extra-curricular activities an sports. We just need to find a good balance.