text: Another reason for offering online courses at home is, by the time high school roles around many students are expected to be come financially independent or to help provide for their family. Not having to attend school during the day would open up forty or more hours that they would be able to work. Which even at minimum wage could make a large difference in their or their families life. Although, often in cases like those a student may not even have the resources to be able to take an online course at home.