text: However, regardless of how much a student is willing to learn on their own during summer vacation with a student-based project, teachers still have their place in this system. Checks and balances are necessary for any system like this to function, and summer projects are no different. Some parameters for these summer projects should be set by teachers. Otherwise, there is no way to ensure that actual learning is taking place during what is supposed to be a learning experience. Teachers also need to have the ability to grade any given project, which would be difficult to do objectively if no parameters were given to the projects.