text: First, having face to face interaction with other students helps build social skills. Gaining social skills is a skill everyone needs in the real world. Schools helps to teach this skill efficiently. For example, students need to be able to make eye contact when talking to someone. At school there a many times when a student is forced to make eye contact, whether it's when another classmate or teacher is talking to them, or the student must make a presentation in front of the class. This skill is needed in real life for things such as job interviews or just simply having a conversation with someone. Another example, would be public speaking. Students everywhere struggle with public speaking for the simple fact that they are not made to do it. Online school makes this even worse, with the fact that there is no way to public speak with online school. Teachers grade public speaking on presentations and oral exams in the classroom. Practicing this will improve student's grades. It also improves one's social skills whether the student has to make a speech in front of many other people, or just carrying a conversation with a group of people. Public speaking helps to build confidence and leadership in a student's life and is crucial for the real world. To close, a students social skills are built upon in school and a classroom environment, online school does not teach or help this skill in any way.