text: Imagine you are a student that has moved away during your first and second year of high school to go study elsewhere because of your parent's occupation. You have now moved back and are just about to start junior year and then you notice that some of the classes that you need to take to pass high school, you never took in the school that you previously moved to as it was not needed there. You now have to repeat those classes which are all mostly filled with freshmen, when you are just a junior yourself. You could have taken that new elective that you actually enjoy learning about, but now you have to take a class designed for eighth graders as a eleventh grader. That was the exact situation that I was in, moved back to a new area, behind on the requirements needed to pass. I believed I was all out of luck and had to repeat what I was taught in the seventh grade because I did not take it in high school. When all my hopes were low, my counselor told me about online classes, I no longer needed to worry about repeating a class as I could take it online over the summer or during the year, saving me time, and opening up a block for me to take any class that I actually enjoy learning about. My situation was just one of the many examples of the ways online classes could benefit a student. A student may not even have to miss two years like me, they could have missed a week as they were on vacation, but with online classes they could easily catch up to the rest of their peers.