text: It's not just the fact that the teachers know more than the students when it comes to what will be taught next year. It comes down to how those projects will be looked at, as well. For instance, if students are allowed to designed their own summer projects, then how would teachers be able to score those projects? Since every student would be designing their own project, teachers would have no standard grading system in place that would cover all the different kinds of projects that students would create. There might be certain steps the students have to follow but that still leaves a lot of creative liberty up to the students. However, with teachers designing the projects, they can make sure that each and every student has roughly the same goals and problems that need to be solved, thus making it easier for them to score the projects.