text: Another beneficial feature of teacher-designed summer assignments is that it allows the teacher to plan and pace the year's curriculum. This is possible because a teacher, when designing the year's lesson plan, will incorporate the summer assignments into it, usually using it as a segway into the year's curriculum. When students design their summer assignments, however, they will likely focus on different subjects picking a topic they're interested in rather than one that will lay the ground work for the upcoming year. This will result in the teachers having to spend extra time at the beginning of the year introducing certain topics and skills that should have been developed over the summer. In turn, this will cause teachers to rush towards the end of the year in attempts to cram all remaining information into their lessons, resulting in many areas being skipped over or barely taught.