text: Attending school comes with the additional formation of day to day life skills such as time management and establishing connections with peers and teachers through the classroom, clubs, or other activities. Distance learning is unable to provide students of these exact skills as students to do not have to arrive at the school itself by a specific time, switch classes in time, or work out how to balance attending school with other activities. The dreaded sound of the first bell, initiating the start to the day and notifying students who did not arrive on time that they are officially tardy, is something students apart of distance learning will not be able to experience. While, this may seem like a good thing, it is a crucial part in adapting the skill of time management. In the real world, every job has a certain start time where employees must arrive or begin working. For instance, in a job that requires the attendance of meetings, one cannot continuously show up late as there are now other people being impacted by one's irresponsibility or lack of time management. Additionally, students learning from home cannot establish strong bonds with their peers or teachers that can impact them later in life. There is often stories told about how a specific teacher impacted a student's life and helped to better their experience in school. While distance learners are still interacting with their teachers, it is online or through video conferencing, lacking the actual social connection needed to form such bonds.