text: If attending classes from home was a common option then everybody would do it, but some students would abuse this option as " skipping " school. I believe that the majority of students would sleep in on purpose and not attend any of their classes during the day. Furthermore, if the online class or video conference has an attendance chart then I would suspect that students would " play the game " almost. For example, the student would wake up on a normal school time, log into their computer and join the video conference, but they would just attend their class so that they don't get an absent mark on their attendance sheet and then leave their computer running while they go back to sleep or do whatever the student does. The teacher doesn't know if the students are even there and following what he or she is teaching. All they know is if the students are attending by seeing how many people are in the teacher's conference chat. At this point, neither of the two, teachers and students, are benefiting from this option at all. The teacher is teaching for no reason and the students who skip the video conference aren't being educated at all. Now, it's not the teachers fault if the students who skip don't learn, it's the students fault because they chose to not attend class.