text: A contagious virus or disease may prompt schools to close due to it simply not being safe to go to school. Being home is beneficial because that is a place of isolation where outside factors like diseases would be hard to contract. This would also help limit the amount of people being infected and keeping the disease contained. In the past, my middle school was shut down due to a high number of Flu cases. This prompted for a closure of the school for two weeks. The only way to receive the education we were going to miss was by implementing online school. Furthermore, completing online school during that time period helped ensure that I was not behind on school work.