text: Teachers have to go to four years of college, usually more, in order to have a job teaching. They get a salary, and benefits, because teaching the students is their job. It's not the students job to teach themselves, and since they can't be with the teacher during the summer, it's reasonable that if they're going to be doing work during their break, the teacher should at least design the assignment and not leave it all to the student. Students dont get paid for coming to school, and while free education is very valuable, the students are required by law to be there and have no choice but to take it. Students want to enjoy their summer break, and since most of their year is spent cooped up inside, its reasonable that teachers should have to design the projects and tell them exactly what to do, because the students are on break, and it is the teachers job.