text: If you are recieving an education by a teacher online, at home, or you are alone doing your classwork in your room all day then there is no way you can phyically interact with any other student your age. If all it is to take your classes online is to communicate with your teacher to learn the subject, and to do the work assigned then how would the student develop teamwork skills by working with other people on assignments or projects? Teamwork is an essential skill that should be learned by everyone because in most cases most jobs will require you to work with a partner or a group of peope for instance firefighters are required to work with a squad to put out a fire. A single person can not complete the task alone. So that is one benefit you will not recieve through online classes, which you will need in real life situations when you go out into working with other people.