I sat in an Open House at a local Middle School for the beginning of the school year a couple of years ago and a veteran teacher of over twenty years made the statement that she does not give projects to her students because as far as she was concerned "parents have enough to do and we didn't need school projects to do as well". There was a round of applause from the parents as well as many thanks for the honesty of this person, who definitely realizes who does the bulk of the work on these projects.