text: The whole point of a "summer break" is to not have to do any work, we finally have time during the week to do other things then go to school. By not doing work over the summer you are not forgetting everything you learned because some of the stuff we actually use in out everyday lives. And even if we don't, we still wouldn't forget we would just need a little refresher on some topics. Which is what most schools do anyways when the kids get back. And even if we did the project at the beginning of the summer, most students wouldn't remember what the project was on. If the teachers were given the authority to assign the summer projects most kids would not do it. Some would forget, or simply just not want to because it is summer break. Kids are traveling and don't always have the time to be focusing on school. Even if parents were contacted about this workload, I believe that students will take it upon themselves to not to it at all. If there was an option to do summer work or not I feel that, the students that want to do better will do that work. Maybe having a prize, extra credit, an automatic test exemption, or something would influence students to pick their choice wisely.