text: Distance learning also doesnt benefit the student for future life by limiting their social interactions. A student that doesnt go to regular school and just takes online classes wont even have the opportunity to meet new people in their classes or make new friends at the lunch table. In my experiences kids that take a lot of online classes or are home schooled often join a sports team because that way they have some method of meeting new people and making friends. Kids need social interaction in order to prepare them for the future, high school classes where the teacher makes you do a introduction in front of the whole class might be embarrassing, but it opens you up to not being scared in front of a large group of people. High school is supposed to prepare you for college, in which some colleges make it mandatory for freshmen to live in the dorms, so if you took online classes throughout high school and now your faced with 10 times the amount of people that were in your high school it can overwhelming. There is also the factor of working in groups, which is something a job might require, working at home by yourself doesnt prepare you for that or even have opportunities like that. Even still in high school group projects help everyone succeed by learning from each other and getting new ideas from your interactions with your peers. Attending online or at home classes wont prepare you for the future because you wont have as much social interaction with other people which is a key factor in growing up and becoming an adult.