text: Distance learning would be beneficial to students with illnesses or injuries that prevent them from attending school. Just last year, I had a fellow student in my biology class get held out of school for more than four months due to a stomach ulcer and later diagnosis of celiax disease. I kept in touch with him while he was out, and he told me that his school work was being sent to his house for his completion along with a mentor for guidance. Upon my friend's return to school, he had completed all of the work assigned to him for biology. However, once our teacher began to lecture about cell organelles, he had a very poor knowledge of the prerequisite work assigned needed to understand our discussion. Work assigned to kids on home-bound is normally not difficult to complete, but a true understanding of the concept cannot be achieved without the guidance of a teacher and classroom environment. With the addition of online seats to listen in on the class discussion, my friend would have been able to get the help he needed to pass biology, and the rest of his classes, as if he were at the school itself. Kids on home-bound often fall behind the rest of the class, since they don't have access to as many resources: teachers, other classmates, extra texbooks, extra practice work, etc. Distance learning can offer students on home-bound the ability to listen in on teachers' lectures, and class discussion, making it an indispensible tool for schools and students.