text: Not surprisingly though, this is causing problems between students and their teachers. They cannot decide who should design the projects. It's the students who are required to complete the projects, therefore they should be the ones to choose the structure of them. While teachers are worried about the material and criteria that the students have to cover, they don't really know the interests and ideas of all the kids. If you force a subject on a student that they genuinely hate for a summer long deal, they're just going to do a halfhearted job on it. For an everyday example, when ever my Trig teacher would assign a project in class, I somewhat cared about getting it done in the beginning, but after realizing that I really don't have any level of interest in trigonometry, I just kind of stopped caring. It's very well known that when someone has an interest in a subject they will plunge all of their effort into it.