text: Students being able to design their own summer projects would not make the project a leaning experience. A student would do the project on a topic that he/she already knows about instead of leaning something new because he/she would want to hurry up and go outside to enjoy the summer. For example, if a student already knows about the great depression and has to do a project on the topic about devastating things that has happened to the American economy he/she would write about the great depression because they already know what happened. There would be no need to go the library or research anything or learn something new. Teachers pick projects that will challenge his or her students to excel not only in the specific subject that he/she teaches but in life also.