text: Distance learning would help those suffering from illness that may be required to stay home or not leave a doctor's care. Many illnesses or diseases can compromise a person's immune system and make going to school dangerous for them. Immune deficiencies are diseases that, from birth, in many cases lower a person's white blood cell count in their body making it so they can't fight off a virus or bacterial infection like most people can. Schools are not safe environments for people suffering from immune deficiencies because classrooms are not steral and any number of germs could be lurking on a desktop touched by hundreds of other kids. Another disease that might compromise a person's immune system and make them unable to go to school is cancer. When a person undergoes chemotherapy the chemo is killing off the cancerous cells, but it can also kill off the good, white blood cells too. This makes it so they are more susceptible to contracting illnesses that could make them even more sick. Often times doctors don't allow students with these types of illnesses to go into an environment like school because it is not clean and safe. Distance learning would help these students because they could learn from the safety of their home or a hospital where they are less likely to get more sick. These students should not be set back or stop their learning just because they can't go to school.