text: Overall, the amount of disadvantages to taking classes at home overrule the amount of benefits that there are. Students do better in an environment where there are others around them doing the same work. Students motivate each other to do better without knowing it, and that benefit is not something that can happen from online schooling and video conferencing. People feed off of each others energy and become more competitive at school, and it allows people to grow and thrive. School is a place of interacting as well, and it allows friendships to be made. There are just so many things that someone could miss out on and lose from attending classes only at home, and it really isn't worth missing all of that.School Grades: