text: You may be asking: "what about sick students that would like to learn? they could benefit from doing online video conferencing with a class." That may be true that sick students can benefit and it would seem smart, but, sick students need their rest. If students have to be up in the morning till afternoon working at home while they are sick they would never get better. Unless a student is brought down with a long term sickness that could last longer than a month, then I don't think that they should use this method of learning from home.