text: Students who take online classes have a significantly lower chance of developing depression due to public school bullying or online bullying. Students also tend to hold a higher GPA score due to self pace that online classes provide. While some parents believe online classes is a great idea for their teen, other parents think differently. Parents also believe that taking online classes could greatly jeopardize their teen's mental growth. They fear their teen could be 'socially awkward' or wouldn't develop the proper structure a kid develops in public school, which is: learning how to sign a check, learning that things must be done by a certain time, learning the law, etc... all of these thoughts are fears that parents think of when they think of putting their teen on online classes when in reality, online classes teach the exact same thing!