text: Although distance learning limits the amount of school the student would miss from illnesses and potentially provides a wider variety of classes for a student, distance learning does not allow the student to have the social aspect that traditional school has. In traditional public/private school, a student would interact with many people from classmates to teachers. This interaction helps build social skills that will help the student later on in their careers and in life. Distance learning offers the student to have more free time throughout the day due to shorter classes and not having the immense amount of wasted time that traditional public/private schools have. The student could use this extra free time to volunteer, get a job or participate in extracurricular activities, which would eliminate the lack of social interaction.