text: Another main point as to why students should not be designing the summer projects is because they have less time for it. Many students participate in extracurricular activities may it be sports, band, theater, or clubs. Each activity requires commitment and time, and with many students spending 2-4 hours after school doing these things, it already leaves them little time for homework, much less designing a whole project. Teachers, on the other hand, have mandatory planning periods built in throughout their day for the sole purpose of outlining lessons, grading papers, or designing projects. Because of students' restricted time throughout the day, they would not design the project as well as if the teacher did.