6222215405001 Students nationwide are falling behind. While virtual learning might be considered safer, it's also causing many to struggle. Teachers say students tend to either succeed or fail, with very little middle ground. "You have your very independent kind of self-motivated kids that are going to keep trucking along are going to keep pushing through, but other students that maybe struggle a little bit more, that like someone to give them encouragement or to kind of push them on and be like, 'Yeah, that's right, keep going,' those kids are really struggling with not having the face-to-face instruction daily," said high school teacher Nancy Sanders.