text: As more school systems begin to adopt summer projects, it is crucial that these projects are student-designed. Summer projects are important to build and preserve learning from throughout the year, but are extremely limiting on students freedom, creativity, and flexibility. By giving students the capability to design their own projects, it restores much of what is lost by giving them summer work. Student-designed projects also help to avoid many of the possible downsides of teacher-designed ones. Because of the lack of freedom and the inability to tailor a project to everyone schedule, teacher-designed projects can often lead to students cheating, or not doing the work at all. By putting students in the driver's seat of their own project, they can find a project that is enjoyable and encourages themselves to do it. By using student-designed projects, schools can obtain the needed balanced between a useful summer and an enjoyable one."Hold up, Someone's calling me. Uh huh. Okay. Sure. Really? No way! Hmmm. Okay, Bye! What were you saying?" I have heard this response too many times. It makes me feel that the person doesn't really care about what I'm going to say, like my input doesn't matter. I do not think cell phones should be included in an ideal learning environment.