text: One of the biggest reasons illness can spread so quickly in school is because students feel that unless they are so sick that they cannot function in school they should come to school because their attendance outweighs the potential spread of an illness. While they may be able to make it through all of their classes without much issue, the burden now falls onto all their classmates who were in contact with them all day. By allowing students to do distance learning, this issue of attendance is eliminated because the students who are sick but not suffering too heavily from the symptoms will be allowed to attend their classes from home so they can take the day off to help prevent the spread of illness without having to worry about all the work they may have missed. In addition, this can help a variety of students who miss school for extended periods of time because of issues such as injury, hospitalization, and even some mental health issues. If these students know they can easily make up the work before they even return to school it can take one less stress off them so they can focus on whatever issue they are dealing with. This may actually result in a decrease of the length of time that students are out of school.