text: If students were to design their own summer projects, this would mean that each year there would be new projects. New projects each year would create non-uniform summer learning, meaning that each year of students would enter their new classes with widely varying knowledge from the summer. This ends up being harder on the teacher, who has no way of knowing if the students are prepared to begin class, and may cut into learning time if the teacher is required to review what was supposed to have been learned over the summer because the students did not adequately cover the material for the summer when they designed their projects.