text: Some may say that when students are given the opportunity to choose what they want to learn, they will take advatage of that and pick something easy or irrelevant to learn. While understandable, that reasoning is flawwed due to the fact that teachers monitor students work in order to keep them on track. For instance, when I was in 7th grade at Generic_School, I chose a topic for my science project that went beyond the realm of 7th grade science. As a result, my teacher, Generic_Name, geared my in the correct direction by giving me a list of topics to choose from that correlated to the currect unit we were learing about. Some may also say that students get discouraged by the thought of summer projects in general, meaning they won't want to work on them at any cost. While understandable, that reasoning is flawed because when students are given the chance to choose something they feel strongly passionate about, they will be far more likely to work towards completing the project. For instance, when my friend, Generic_Name, was given the initiative to find statistics in his AP Statistics class at Generic_School, he chose to research statistics about his favorite game called League of Legends that included the number of people in each country