Partners in school is really unfair.

write here letter for her. so at least u got something to present. but dont make it better then urs.

write here letter for her. so at least u got something to present. but dont make it better then urs.

T_REX305

Should I go complain to my teacher or something?

Wakanoid

Yes, lest you receive even partial blame for the incomplete assignment.

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?

Wakanoid

Ask to work alone =s

ToppledPillars

Ugh my last group for a debate was a disaster.

Right off the bat, my friend and I weren't included at all in any of the discussions. The other four people were all friends so I guess they thought they could get along without us, or we were too stupid or something (we're not). I don't know.

So we kept asking what we should do, and nobody gave us any directions. Eventually the last night before it's due comes up and they're all freaking out and telling us to go online to help. My friend got frustrated and left and I had to leave for about 20 minutes. When I got back there was a whole convo about us. One was "Oh great, I leave for a little while and **** hits the fan. And meanwhile the two people that have done ****-all leave. Life's a *****, ain't it".

I was like "Excuse me?". Three of them had left for a little while, while one didn't even show up. Groups suck.

So yeah I empathize. I'd probably let your teacher know. At least that's what I plan to do if I get the same group again.

OH MY **** GOD. Quote - **** im not comming to school on monday, tuesday,and maybe wedesday.!!!" Yup, thanks for leaving me completely **** OH! Also to start 2 discussions. I'm assuming lots of people have also had where they constantly offer to do work... But the group doesn't give you any to do. Then you get a bad individual mark.

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.

XturnalS

Man, you think partnering at school was bad? Try jiu-jitsu. Every week my stepdad used to partner with me with this whale of a woman, seriously, it was horrible. Every week having to physically touch this monster, get into awkward positions with her. Jesus, just remembering it makes me cringe. I guess it was worth it for every time I put her in a kimura.

when I'm in classes where none of my friends are in, I hate doing assignments with partners

I remember doing a group project in High school where everyone had to email me their part so I could combine it into a slideshow. Around 11PM the night before the project was due someone emailed me a word document with hyperlinks to a couple of websites. This was a project that required several talking points,images and full citations. All the person did was literally google the topic and send me hyperlinks to the website. I ended up doing that part of the project myself (the links sent to me were useless) and got a 90 on the project.

I've never had any luck with group projects. I've always had people who either did poor work, didn't do any work or took over the project and got us all bad grades.

You need to inform your teacher.

Everyone hates group projects as there is always one person who just craps around. I had one earlier this year where it was one question each in a group of five. I picked the end question, which was twice as long as the rest. We agreed that the others would be done by the Wednesday before it was due because I needed the results of the other four questions to write my 6 page answer. Come Saturday night I messaged them all asking them where it was, and they were like "we haven't finished". It was due Monday and I needed their results. Luckily I was a bit sick and I just got a doctors note, and I got my course average for those marks.

Tell your teacher. I too hate group projects, especially when I have to depend on the teamwork of idiots.

Your best option is to treat the single sentence that you gave her as the entirety of her contribution and write your own contribution in response to that.

Also be sure to inform the teacher of the circumstances under which you had to work.

Don't be shy to "forward" or print out the e-mail she sent to you.

I resigned to that long time ago. I grow smarter every time that ghappens

Wakanoid

man i hate those situations they really get my blood boiling

a situation like this happened to me in drama 1 time except there wasnt really much writing involved and i was with 4 other people that were just complete lazy pricks geeez our play suked major but i got a high mark compared to any1 else because i got all my lines and acting on spot and i was the only1 that wrote down all our technical info i'm just lucky our teacher rates the individual more than the group

The purpose of school is to prepare you for the real world. Most jobs require cooperative work amongst peers (some good and some crappy). -you are usually judged by the success of the project (not individual effort) So partners/group work is in no way unfair.rawsavon

Not exactly. In school, sometimes you have to put up with the total losers who don't do ANYTHING. Atleast in work, those people can get fired.

[QUOTE="rawsavon"]The purpose of school is to prepare you for the real world. Most jobs require cooperative work amongst peers (some good and some crappy). -you are usually judged by the success of the project (not individual effort) So partners/group work is in no way unfair.SgtKevali

Not exactly. In school, sometimes you have to put up with the total losers who don't do ANYTHING. Atleast in work, those people can get fired.

[QUOTE="SgtKevali"]

[QUOTE="rawsavon"]The purpose of school is to prepare you for the real world. Most jobs require cooperative work amongst peers (some good and some crappy). -you are usually judged by the success of the project (not individual effort) So partners/group work is in no way unfair.rawsavon

Not exactly. In school, sometimes you have to put up with the total losers who don't do ANYTHING. Atleast in work, those people can get fired.

Nope. (this is the response to your question, not just a blatant denial)

The difference I see is that it's a lot easier to fire someone than it is to kick them out of school. Them not doing anything in school will lead to them and you failing.

[QUOTE="SgtKevali"]

[QUOTE="rawsavon"]The purpose of school is to prepare you for the real world. Most jobs require cooperative work amongst peers (some good and some crappy). -you are usually judged by the success of the project (not individual effort) So partners/group work is in no way unfair.rawsavon

Not exactly. In school, sometimes you have to put up with the total losers who don't do ANYTHING. Atleast in work, those people can get fired.

Oh yeah, this crap doesn't end in school. My last job had some ass that would try to pawn his work on me. I was an intern so he thought that I should do work that was "beneath him" so to speak. At first I did it, but my supervisor started getting on to me about it (mostly because my supervisor hated this guy). That was when I realized he didn't have any authority over me. After a few months, he'd ask me to do something, I'd tell him I was going to do it, then just not do it. Then he would spend the next week staying late so he could catch up :D. He kept doing it after that too, and I'd keep doing the same thing. Watching him get chewed out in the meetings kept me entertained.

[QUOTE="rawsavon"][QUOTE="SgtKevali"]

Not exactly. In school, sometimes you have to put up with the total losers who don't do ANYTHING. Atleast in work, those people can get fired.

SgtKevali

Nope.

The difference I see is that it's a lot easier to fire someone than it is to kick them out of school. Them not doing anything in school will lead to them and you failing.

[QUOTE="SgtKevali"]

[QUOTE="rawsavon"] Are you out in the work force yet (post school)? -serious question There are total losers everywhere (where do you think they go). So it is exactly the samerawsavon

Nope.

The difference I see is that it's a lot easier to fire someone than it is to kick them out of school. Them not doing anything in school will lead to them and you failing.

I understand it can be hard in the workplace as well, I just think (based not on experience mind you) that it's easier to fire than to kick out of school.

[QUOTE="rawsavon"][QUOTE="SgtKevali"]

Nope.

The difference I see is that it's a lot easier to fire someone than it is to kick them out of school. Them not doing anything in school will lead to them and you failing.

SgtKevali

I understand it can be hard in the workplace as well, I just think (based not on experience mind you) that it's easier to fire than to kick out of school.

[QUOTE="SgtKevali"]

[QUOTE="rawsavon"] Not really at all accurate. It can prove quite difficult to fire individual people in today's litigious society. So the teacher is showing students what it is like to work in the real world...a very valuable lesson (more so than most)rawsavon

I understand it can be hard in the workplace as well, I just think (based not on experience mind you) that it's easier to fire than to kick out of school.

Nah, I was talking about kicking them out of school.

[QUOTE="rawsavon"][QUOTE="SgtKevali"]

I understand it can be hard in the workplace as well, I just think (based not on experience mind you) that it's easier to fire than to kick out of school.

SgtKevali

Nah, I was talking about kicking them out of school.

[QUOTE="SgtKevali"]

[QUOTE="rawsavon"] Well it is NOT easier to fire someone than fail them (which is what we are talking about...not kick them out of school) -I say this as both a former teacher and someone that works in the corporate world nowrawsavon

Nah, I was talking about kicking them out of school.

I agree, it isn't the same thing, which is why you can't make these kinds of comparisons so lightly. The dynamics of work and school are different, are they not?

[QUOTE="rawsavon"][QUOTE="SgtKevali"]

Nah, I was talking about kicking them out of school.

SgtKevali

I agree, it isn't the same thing, which is why you can't make these kinds of comparisons so lightly. The dynamics of work and school are different, are they not?

[QUOTE="SgtKevali"]

[QUOTE="rawsavon"] That is not the same thing at all though. The equivalent to kicking them out of school would be kicking them out of the industry rawsavon

I agree, it isn't the same thing, which is why you can't make these kinds of comparisons so lightly. The dynamics of work and school are different, are they not?

Failing a class isn't like getting fired though. It isn't as if you have to leave that class after you fail. More often than not, you have to retake it. Do you get fired and then redo your job?

[QUOTE="rawsavon"][QUOTE="SgtKevali"]

I agree, it isn't the same thing, which is why you can't make these kinds of comparisons so lightly. The dynamics of work and school are different, are they not?

SgtKevali

Failing a class isn't like getting fired though. It isn't as if you have to leave that class after you fail. More often than not, you have to retake it. Do you get fired and then redo your job?

[QUOTE="SgtKevali"]

[QUOTE="rawsavon"] No they are not in this case. Getting fired (from one job) is the same as getting fired from 1 class (fail that class). The teacher is showing how a group project can lead to success (keep job/pass) or failure (fail that class or fired) It is exactly the same rawsavon

Failing a class isn't like getting fired though. It isn't as if you have to leave that class after you fail. More often than not, you have to retake it. Do you get fired and then redo your job?

Nah. When you get fired you aren't guarenteed another job.

[QUOTE="rawsavon"][QUOTE="SgtKevali"]

Failing a class isn't like getting fired though. It isn't as if you have to leave that class after you fail. More often than not, you have to retake it. Do you get fired and then redo your job?

SgtKevali

Nah. When you get fired you aren't guarenteed another job.

[Wakanoid