text: Aside from distance learning's lack of ability to provide face to face interactions and hands-on-learning, it also fails to allow students to experience an ideal college classroom setting. A majority of high school students plan to pursue higher levels of study in the future and attend college. Universities often have classroom settings for their lectures, and students will not be used to it if they have been studying from home for their high school years. A classroom setting and a household setting are two completely different experiences. It would be difficult for someone to get used to a classroom setting after they've spent years without even stepping into a classroom. Another disadvantage is that they may find participating in group work to be difficult. Many college assignments involve projects or group work, and distance learning students would likely not be able to perform as well in those assignments than as students who attended regular school. For example, it may be hard for them to follow the directions and meet the requirements for the project, as well as being able to interact and make agreements with their group members. Furthermore, group work is also critical in jobs outside of college, so this applies to students not attending college as well. Distance learning students wouldn't be used to the ideal college or job setting and would have trouble getting used to it. Because of this, online education wouldn't benefit students as much as regular classrooms do.