text: A brick and mortar school provides many essential factors to help enhance the learning experience that are unfortunately not present in distance learning programs. A physical school provides recourses that help students develop a healthy life while distance learning programs fail to do so. However, as technology improves more and more, distance learning programs might be able to fill in these holes and become more and more promising as a new, better method of schooling. What comes to mind when you think about school? You tend to think of a big building, filled with other kids, that your parents made you go to when you were younger. Well now schooling has changed a bit. Some schools offer distance learning as a schooling option, however; many kids aren't getting the social interactions they need. With distance learning there are benefits and concerns.