text: Learning from a video is not as interactive as doing the same in a classroom with a teacher present. Many students learn in different ways; a fact that would be hard for a teacher to accommodate for over a video conference. The video conferencing would also make it difficult for teachers to interact directly with their students by offering feedback for their work and answering questions. Activities done in the classroom in which students interact with the material that they are learning are integral for students to effectively learn said material. In the summer after eighth grade, I took Geometry online from home. The class consisted of videos and small projects followed by online quizzes. Despite getting a very good grade in the class, I retained almost none of the information I learned. To this day, I often struggle in my math classes when we learn information that builds on what we were supposed to learn in Geometry. The online class lacked the flair that a real teacher would have added to the class that was necessary for me learning the information in a meaningful way. Students taking online classes would face very similar challenges to the ones I did, greatly diminishing the meaningfulness of the classes.