text: The reason why it should be student designed and not teacher designed is because if it were to be teacher designed it would make the students not interested and make them lose their own focus in some type of way. Teacher are there to make students learn but not to control them by choosing what types of projects students will do over the summer. After all it is their summer vacation so, they should be able to see what type of project they want to do and willing to give up their time on. In Dual Enrollment and Advance Placement actually require to do a summer packet or summer project but it was up to the students to chose that course and were also informed that they would have a summer packet. But if some schools do require students who do not take those type of classes and just gives them a summer project it would be fair for students to chose their own project to do.