As we all know, the youth is the hope of our future. This petition was established for schools to encourage the students or the youth to join at least one extracurricular activities that may help shape them and their future. Students nowadays are bombarded with so much academic loads that is unnecessary for their growth. If this petition will be implemented in different schools around the country, students will have a time to do activities which are not part of the academic curriculum.

According to Randy Brown’s study entitled “Extracurricular activity: How does participation encourage positive youth development”, the following are several signs of a good extracurricular program:
• Youth feel like they are a part of a group or something special.
• Youth have the opportunity to develop relationships with adults and pro-social peers.
• The program has goals that encourage youth and staff to achieve great things, while also having rules that hold participants accountable to certain standards.
• Youth can take on leadership roles.

SIGN THE PETITION NOW!!!