text: While student-designed summer programs prove effective at stimulating student creativity and productivity, teacher-designed assingments are still superior at preparing the student for the upcoming school year. They provide a standard level of preparedness for students, ensuring that they enter a level playing field instead of having some students be far more prepared than others. Also, it allows for a teacher to plan their curriculum and pace it in a way that ensures no student feels rushed or left behind whil still teaching the information adequately. Most importantly, it allows students to develop certain skills that will set them up for success, especially in fast paced classes that wont spend extra time to fortify these skills. With all this in mind, it's clear that, to better prepare the students for the upcoming school year, tachers should be responsible for designing summer work assignments as they know how to prepare students best, based off the course and sklls it requires.Dear Principal TEACHER_NAME,