text: Another use for distance learning is for students unable to attend class time due to vacations or other outings their parents may require them to go to. Last fall, my family took a weekend trip to Generic_City, Canada, but they insisted on leaving on Friday morning. Even though I told my parents that I was missing our most important lecture in US history before the test date, they insisted further. On the long ten hour drive up, my thoughts only consisted of how poorly I'll do on my history test with my lack of opportunity to study. Upon receiving my grade for the test, I saw the lowest score on this test than any other assignment in that class. Distance learning would have provided me with the opportunity to sit in on our class lecture and get the study material in the same style of lecturing that I was already used to from my teacher. This, thereby, would have improved my grade, and many other students with similar scenarios, in the class by a whole letter grade.