text: Summer assignments must be teacher designed so that the memory of the student is exercised and retained. It is very common for students to become lazy over the summer; by making summer assignments student created, there is entitlement for students to create a summer assignment in which there is not much efficiency or work, for the sole purpose of being lazy over summer vacation. Although, if the teacher created the summer assignment, this allows for the teacher to create an efficient assignment that will properly teach the content. In addition, it holds the student accountable to do efficient and beneficiary work so that their memory stays retained. Retaining a student's memory is needed because it is important that students remember everything from the last school year to help them in the upcoming one. If assignments are student designed, an inefficient assignment will most likely be created due to students not wanting to do any work over the break. By doing this, the student's memory will most likely not be retained because their brain is not thinking the same as it would be if the assignment was teacher designed. This can be seen as a negative ideal. For example,