text: Allowing kids to stay home and video conference to school would deprive kids of so many things that a growing child should develop. This is the same problem with solitary confinement. Although inmates aren't growing anymore, they are still humans and still need to be able to socialize with others. They still need to be able to have relationships because humans are social creatures. Humans have become the apex predator on earth because of socializing. Inmates in solitary confinement go crazy because they don't have the social interaction that every human being craves. They also lose the idea of being polite and respectful to others (although most inmates in solitary confinement were respectful or polite to begin with). The importance of seeing people face to face is the biggest reason why allowing students to go to school via video conferencing is a bad idea and why allowing solitary confinement is a bad idea.This all started 21 years ago. Here is how the face on Mars was discovered. NASA's Viking 1 spacecraft was circling Mars, taking pictures for possible landing sites for it's sister Viking 2 and it spotted a shadown of a likely human face. It was a great big head shaped face 2 miles apart from end to end. That is how this all started.