text: As a student myself speaking, I hope that all guardians never shut down the idea of distance learning. I believe that any child can and will benefit from this opportunity. Some public schools are just to challenging for some kids and can be very difficult to get through. Now after stating all my points and opinions on distance learning, I hope that the idea stays open to all students and families that ever need it. In Nick D'Alto's article, " Making Mona Lisa Smile", the author suggests that Dr. Hung's new facial regonation would be useful for many things including using it in a class room to read stusdents' emotional expressions. I agree with Dr. Hung that the software would be useful to help decipher mixed emoitions. In his article, he uses the Mona Lisa as an example, and I personally think that it was a good example to help show her conveyed expressions.