text: Remaining on task plays a major role in getting an education. If you cannot stay focused when you are completing a task, it will never get done to its full potential. Students, especially those getting a high school education or lower, tend to have small attention spans. They can get distracted very easily. Allowing them to take online classes would just lead to them getting distracted by the infinite number of other things they can do at their house. For example, say there is a boy taking online classes from his home and he starts to get bored, so he decides to just go play video games in the middle of a lecture. There is no one to stop him from ignoring his online work. When students are in school, even if they start to get off task, there is always someone there to make sure that everything is operating smoothly. The online schooling has no way to stop students from getting distracted.