Partners in school is really unfair.

Have you ever had it, where you get one partner and you get matched up with the worst person possible?

Well, just on Friday we had to pick partners and take part in a small assignment. We had to write a letter to eachother pretending to be one of the two characters in the book.

So, one person writes to that person and the other person writes back. My teacher puts me with the dumbest girl in class who doesn't talk at all.

But, I didn't really care about that. It's the fact that I say, okay so what are we doing?

*shrug*

Uhm, how about this?

*shrug*

Would not work with me at all.

Now, I asked for her to write her part of the letter as homework (even told her what to write) as she is doing the initial letter/email and I need hers first to write mine. (The entire class finished except for us). But even better, she's not even gonna do it. We also get to present it tomorrow. I mean, this is completely unfair.

Should I go complain to my teacher or something? She won't do anything. She is absolutely useless...

I've tried as much as I can. Only thing I can really do is write both parts myself now. I really don't deserve my mark to go down because of this.

What should I do? Also, have you had any similar experiences?

I would tell the teacher about it. Though, you think she may seem useless, but she could help you solve your problems and maybe get her to actually work with you better. This happened to me many times, like recently I was with a group of about 5 people. All 5 of these people were worthless and were slackers and literally refused to do any of the work. I tried to do all of it basically myself, but it wasn't enough and we failed the group grade. So this made me learn I should of probably told the teacher about it instead of letting it go and making me fail the assignment.

Yeah. I had a pretty big project in college and the girl in my group had to go to work when this guy in our group wanted to do the work. So, him and I were working on it that night and he gets a cal and looks at me and says "So, what we have here is like a B Plus, right?" We weren't even halfway done. He wanted to go to a party and so he rushed the entire thing, forced me to just conclude right there so he could print it off and leave. And we got a 55 :P

I hate group projects.

Ask to work alone =s

I would tell the teacher about it. Though, you think she may seem useless, but she could help you solve your problems and maybe get her to actually work with you better. This happened to me many times, like recently I was with a group of about 5 people. All 5 of these people were worthless and were slackers and literally refused to do any of the work. I tried to do all of it basically myself, but it wasn't enough and we failed the group grade. So this made me learn I should of probably told the teacher about it instead of letting it go and making me fail the assignment.

flyingtorso2

Talk to your teacher. Do any amount of the work you can do by yourself though. It'll show them that you at least tried.

I feel your pain. Just tell the teacher

You need to inform your teacher about this. There is no need for you to go down along with her.

when I have to work with parteners I just do the partners work for them

You need to inform your teacher about this. There is no need for you to go down along with her.

shoot-first

Tell the teacher that your dog ate the assignment. :P All right, justtell your teacher

Hated it. Like 60% of my class didn't give a crap about school and grades so it was kinda tough at times.

I'm in humanities now, so I don't think I will ever have to deal with this ever again until after graduationfunsohng

Happens to me often. Thankfully now in High School, my teachers trust us to pick our own partners. Most of my friends have the same work ethic as me so we get stuff done.Zeldafan221

[QUOTE="funsohng"]I'm in humanities now, so I don't think I will ever have to deal with this ever again until after graduationforgot_it

I think having a mind that doesn't have a proper understanding of how to handle other people is more unfair..

I think every time I've ever had to work with a partner or in groups in school I've always gotten the worst partner(s) possible! There's always someone who doesn't care about anything and doesn't do any work, someone who doesn't show up, or someonw who has really bad ideas and want to be the leader. Being forced to work with someone you don't know is the worst idea in school. I'd always complain to the teacher though. I don't want a bad mark because of someone else.

Just call her out in front of the class when it comes time for presentation.

"Well I wrote my part of the letter that I can present, but I couldn't get that chick to do anything at all. She just sat there staring."

[QUOTE="Zeldafan221"]Happens to me often. Thankfully now in High School, my teachers trust us to pick our own partners. Most of my friends have the same work ethic as me so we get stuff done.Wakanoid

[QUOTE="Wakanoid"][QUOTE="Zeldafan221"]Happens to me often. Thankfully now in High School, my teachers trust us to pick our own partners. Most of my friends have the same work ethic as me so we get stuff done.Zeldafan221

Show up to her house. Naked. Or inform your teacher. Whatever works man.Wilfred_Owen

If it's high school, the solution is to take advanced classes.

[QUOTE="Wilfred_Owen"]Show up to her house. Naked. Or inform your teacher. Whatever works man.Wakanoid

Tell it your teacher and proof it that she didnothelp you with the project.

If it's high school, the solution is to take advanced classes.

SgtKevali

Just call her out in front of the class when it comes time for presentation.

"Well I wrote my part of the letter that I can present, but I couldn't get that chick to do anything at all. She just sat there staring."

HammerSmashBass

This seems most astute.

I had the opposite happen to me In Freshman year, we had a bio project, and our teacher paired us with someone who lives in the same neighborhood as me

So I got this girl who I had to work with. I'm a senior and the details are fuzzy, but I remember enjoying my weekend and working on it on the Monday we had break (we had a week vacation, and this takes a day or two tops.) When I IM'ed her about where we are going to meet for the project on Monday, she said that she did the whole thing by herself, which made me feel guilty. I asked if there was anything I could've done for the project since I didn't do anything. She said no. I kept on asking her, but she kept on refusing. At the end, I just gave in and felt weird that now I had no Bio Project to do. Then friday rolls around and she IM's me saying that she can't put my name in because I didn't do any work.
So during the weekend, I had to get construction paper and work out everything on Sunday (when I had all my supplies). That girl had a 95, while I had a 70 :|

EDIT: I think I made a thread on Gamespot about this too, but only got 1 response

[QUOTE="SgtKevali"]

If it's high school, the solution is to take advanced classes.

Wakanoid

But how can a girl as nonchalant and stupid as you describe be in those classes?

[QUOTE="Wakanoid"][QUOTE="SgtKevali"]

If it's high school, the solution is to take advanced classes.

SgtKevali

But how can a girl as nonchalant and stupid as you describe be in those classes?

yeah I literally just had a project where two others and I did absolutely nothing. Not by choice but because I got matched up with two girls who were already friends I got pushed to the side and didn't really care.

I end up getting credit for literally doing absolutely nothing. So in this instance it was great, but I've had the other one as well.

She's obviously shy.

Don't be a dick.

Or you could do what my friend used to do in situations like these... take command and during the presentation, belittle the useless partner in front of the class at every turn. If they don't know what they're doing, it's their own fault.

She's obviously shy.

Don't be a dick.

no_more_fayth