text: Summer projects are required by some schools to assure that the students had learned something from the previous year and to continue their learning for the following year. It will tell the teacher what the student had learned and may need help on. Also it will also make the student not feel rushed when he or she was making the project. Giving a student the chance to design their own project will show self-advocacy and how independent they are. Therefore, I believe that summer projects should be student-designed rather that teacher-designed.             With daily advances in technology, the education system is shifting towards a more modern approach: going online. Students are no longer opening their textbooks, but now it's their laptops that are cracking open. While online school seems to be full of positives, the negatives such as the social aspect of school missing, the escape from at-home problems that students rely on school for, and the inconsistency of technology are some big red flags opposing the switch.