text: For both college and high school students, timing is everything. As an employed junior in high school I can understand the struggles of simply running out of time due to school. Many students have other events to attend such as practice for a sport, a club, volunteer work, and other time consuming activities. It can be hard to fit these things into one's schedule after an eight to ten hour school day. For this reason, distant learning is a great option. It allows students to work at their own pace and still have time to do other activities. For many students it can be hard to balance life and getting their education all at once. For example, my mother was a college student and was still able to balance having four kids, going to work eight hour shifts, an earning her bachelors degree all thanks to distant learning. Being unable to attend day-time classes can be a struggle, but because of online school busy students are not excluded from learning.