text: Distance learning will not benefit students because the students will cheat more and with greater ease. Currently in traditional schools cheating is a large problem. During assessments students will look at another students test and copy answers down, try to take out their phone to search answers, or try to talk to other students to get help. With online classes it will be even easier for students to cheat on assignments and assessments. Students will have access to a wide variety of resources at their homes that can not be limited. While it is possible to restrict some cheating on online testing through programs designed to not allow students to cheat, those programs only work to prevent cheating from that one device. While taking an assessment at home a student could easily take out their phone and search for an answer online without the program on their computer having any knowledge of that happening. This is easily prevented at traditional schools by a proctor supervising testing, but is not preventable for online classes.