text: Teachers know what they are going to teach in that year the lesson plan for the entire year is provided to them by the state. The student's do not, they're there to learn and to learn only. So the idea that the students would design a project is absolutely ludacris! Why would they do what their parents pay the teachers to do through tax money? If the students made the projects the projects wouldn't help them at all because they'd have no idea what they'd be learning and the idea that they'd know what their learning because they're in that class gets thrown out the window because its a summer project, only the teacher knows what's taught in that upcoming year. I think students should focus on learning and teachers should focus on teaching their shouldn't be any sort of role reversal because that just complicates things. Also teachers are their to teach the students it clearly states that in their job description. Having students design their own work just clearly sets them up to fail because they don't have the knowledge to know what knowledge they need to gain in order to be succesful.