text: In addition, students should be able to learn at their own desired pace. Many teacher-designed summer assignments have specific deadlines and requirements, that not only add stress to the student, but affect the student's overall mental health and performance. Many studies have shown that assigned deadlines drastically increase anxiety in a student, which not only affects mental capabilities, but harm the performance abilities, leading the student to do worse in that assignment. This is important because if a student is not in the correct state of mind, it will be displayed in the school work and be reflected by the low grade that student will receive. Also, mental health should always be valued over school work, and if schoolwork is causing mental health to drop, then action should be taken. Going off that point, working off one's own pace greatly relieves stress. Like stated before, deadlines cause a great deal of anxiety, however anxiety does not stand alone. Adding deadlines and constant assignments adds an abundance of stress. With heavy deadlines, while still trying to meet the given criteria, a student will feel overwhelmed and consumed with schoolwork. That feeling is neither healthy, nor ethical for any student, let alone it being during the summer. No student under any circumstance should be stressed or have any anxiety attack during the summer, all because of schoolwork.