text: A big factor of students failure to attend school results to ongoing mental issues. Students who has depression, anxiety, or any sort of mental issues typically is harder for them to attend school while something is off. Mental illness tends to make people tired, unmotivated, sad, distracted, etc. I struggle with depression and anxiety, along those lines it is harder for me to wake up and I lose the will to go to school and sleep instead. I have no motivation to do homework, interact, or leave my room. Missing a lot of days will cause you to be behind and you're left with a pill of graded work and nothing but anxiety attacks and breakdowns. It's like a never ending cycle and being put in distance learning to provide the alternative option to make up for the lost times.