text: Some may object and say that online or video conferencing corrodes student's social skills. While understandable, that reasoning is flawed due to the fact that students who have these problems choose homeschooling as an alternative. If homeschooling is to be the alternative, students should be allowed to learn with their classmates through conferences so that they can still cultivate social skills. By forbidding these new ways of learning, people that are home schooled have a much harder time adjusting to the world. For instance, my cousin Generic_Name who is very shy around people. She was home schooled until middle school and was having a difficult time adjusting to her new environment. She finally became more confident later in the year as she made new friends.