text: Also, I believe if students got to design the summer project, then they would take to easy way out. Students probably would choose something easy to work on for the summer, and this would cause them not to learn anything. For example, most students don't work on their summer projects til the end of the summer and they don't learn anything by doing that, because they just rush to get it done. If a teacher deigned the summer project it would encourage students to do the project over a period of time and they would actually learn.