text: Another reason as to why summer projects should be student designed is so that students could learn things that they wouldn't have in school. A teachers assignment would probably have something to do with completing math problems or to reading about a famous person in history. That's fine, but they could do those things during the school year. A better use of their time would be to write about experiences they had during the summer like about a job we had or a place they went. Because school gives students a base learning of most subjects so they are better rounded, but school doesn't usually help students when it comes to deciding what they want to do and taking that next step towards a career. Let the students choose what they want to learn about during the summer helps them further their own specific learning rather than the group base laerning they do in school.