text: Secondly, everyone knows kids like to slack off when we can. We skip work, right fake answers, and cheat to get out of doing all the work assigned. If the subject of the project is left for the student to chose then it might not do them any good in retaiing proper information. When the student is told to find something to do a project on they would probably find a topic they recently did well in or something far beneath there skill level. An example that shows this is when I had to chose a format for my final project in my honors English class. I could chose between many different things: a regular essay, a research paper on the events of the story, or even a rap song that explains the book. I chose to write a letter as one of the characters because it didnt challenge me as much as the other choices. If given the chance a student will almost always chose the easy work which is why a teacher should design the project so that the student is challenging themselves and growing.