text: The final example is my own personal experience, I once had a student-based project for English where I had to read 3 books for English but it had to be books of my own choice and I could choose whatever books I wanted to read for the summer project and write what books I had to read down on paper. That was the whole project, and since I had a choice and could read whatever I want, I procrastinated because I didn't like reading and personally didn't want to waste my time doing something I wasn't interested in instead of doing what everyone wants to do during summer which was have fun. So, since I was able to choose my own books I chose books that I thought were interesting and easy and turned out these books were under my reading level and just wrote those books down and continued my summer. The books being under my reading level didn't help me in the long run because once school started we were reading books that looked ten times bigger and longer than what I was used to which applied more stress to me and made it harder to read these bigger books and also affected my vocabulary. Some may argue that student-based projects allow the teachers to not have to take responsibility for whether students learned anything or not because it also could provide practice in a life skill that is self-teaching which could be helpful in college etc. However, if teachers aren't held responsible for these projects, some students wouldn't be able to learn much compared to those who actually did the project during the summer, making the students who didn't try or challenge themselves fall more and more behind everyone else ultimately hurting their success within the school year.