text: Students are less likely to get distracted by friends or classmates if the school offers distance learning as an option for students because it will be just the student and he or she won't have any friends to waste time with. When I was in 3rd grade I had a lot of friends in my class and we would just mess around with each other and have fun instead of learning. My grades that year dropped I never payed attention in class because all my focus was on my friends. The next year I was in class with none of my friends and I did a lot better, my grades were good and I was doing good on tests and projects. Everything was great, but there was one problem in the second semester I sat next to the most disrespectful and annoying kid ever, he was a big distraction that would not stop talking and I could not learn.