Equal Priority To The Extra Activities As Other Subjects In School Or University Education

Are sports, dance and other co-curricular activities given equal importance as education in a student’s life, these days? Some people will say “yes nowadays, sports and other non-educational activities are given equal priorities with education by saying that now there are many sporting institutions, many sporting clubs, dance institutes, drawing classes.”, but are they enough? But does everybody get the pleasure of these things with education ? The answer is a big NO.

Let’s discuss the reasons  for this thing. Some kids don’t get the proper backing for those extra activities from their parents as their parents tell them to have more concentration on education and state the extra activities as non-necessary and less important to their kids. And there are also kids who are not able to practice these extra stuffs due to financial problems of their parents, in this case the parents could not do much after spending so much on their kids’ studies, and then comes the case of the kids who want to practice these extra things but lack self-belief due to hearing negative  stuff from people or we can say our so called ‘society’.

I think there is a solution for this. In school, there must be an extra subject which would be of their (kids) interests such as dance, cricket, football, athletics, painting, etc. The student who has an interest in anything, he/she can choose the extra activity as their extra subject which would also have marks like the regular subjects, but this subject must be more practical than theoretical. It must also have exams like the other subjects. This subject will also have a place in the school timetable and kids will get to pursue their extra interests than studies.

By doing this extra subject thing we can have many benefits such as the parents having the parents having financial problems, can get their children pursue their non-educational interests without spending any extra money as it all would come under their school fees, and the parents who were keen on forcing their children for only studies will also encourage the children for the extra subject thing as it would be a part of the syllabus then ,and the students who were lacking self-belief, shy will not feel the same because then they will go on in a systematic manner and they will not feel alone. I feel that this thing must be done in every school, whether be government or private. This would be great for making a better future for the children and everyone.