text: Summer assignments given to students often don't have any meaningful or significant information that the student needs to know. Most summer assignments have either new information from the new school year, or old information from the previous year. Why should a student, having already learned something, do it over again in a time of break? Why should a student learn something by themselves just to have to relearn it at school? From what I have seen, most of the assignments are review from the previous year, or completely new information that we have to learn ourselves. If a student already knows a topic, they shouldn't have to repeat it over and over, especially when its not going to help their education. If a teacher assigns summer work that goes over the information for the coming year, it's lazy. A teacher is suposed to teach certain things by a certain date, and if they can't, the student shouldn't have to teach it to themselves. That is what a teacher is meant to do! This is significant as not every child has the same educational opportunites as others, and subjecting them to learn and teach themselves topic makes the whole idea of summer assignments discriminatory. Some may not have access to computers, the internet, or even have English-speaking parents who could help them with their school work. This is important now, as the socioecrnomic gap in socisety has only widened, which is another reason summer work should not be required.