I think your hand is being forced here. You may have had a chance a week or so ago to talk to the teacher about splitting from the group, but you're pretty screwed now. If this is a big project don't let some lazy bastards drag your grade down with them.

T.O.P.

Hong Kong4685 Posts

March 09 2009 06:26 GMT

#23

If you're a senior, don't do it. Since college don't look at senior year grades. If you're a junior, you're gonna have to do it. Since grades count for college.

LosingID8

CA10824 Posts

March 09 2009 06:31 GMT

#24

this tends to be a trend in business classes in college as well.

i've honestly never have had a problem doing a group project with any of my classmates in science classes, but i have friends in business courses that complain about this type of situation all the time.

Mastermind

Canada7096 Posts

March 09 2009 06:37 GMT

#25

Its high school, who cares. Move on.

Ry-Masta-T

United States478 Posts

March 09 2009 06:43 GMT

#26

Stop whining you woman.
Everyone has to carry their dumb group members through HS, deal with it.

Ghost151

United States290 Posts

March 09 2009 06:44 GMT

#27

this is high school right? not so serious stuff IMO

anyways my advice may not work out so well for you as I would just say fuck it, bite the bullet and take the hit in grade and make your group members eat their procrastination by not helping them and taking care of your own stuff first (studying for your tests and whatnot). But, again I have no idea what your situation is in your school (my HS was laughable and I was straight A when I could be bothered to give a crap about my class, so I could afford dropping a class in the first place). Then again, I'm quite a cynical person that would rather keep things fair than pick up some other's damn slack.

Pessimistic outlook: at least you learned you can't trust others

sorry

naventus

United States1337 Posts

March 09 2009 06:45 GMT

#28

People who "study" business are fucking retards. I regret all the time I've wasted doing business classes etc.

Don't do any more of it.

Meth

Canada396 Posts

March 09 2009 07:08 GMT

#29

smoke a joint, go to sleep.

"fuck those kids"

Tinithor

United States1552 Posts

March 09 2009 07:12 GMT

#30

I think the people in your group (and most high schoolers and people in general) need to be castrated with a wooden spoon.

Mikilatov

United States3897 Posts

March 09 2009 07:16 GMT

#31

Group work ALWAYS sucks when not everyone has a stake in the work.

Worst thing ever in high school, college, or work.

indecision

Germany818 Posts

March 09 2009 07:24 GMT

#32

Get some sleep and yeah, group work sucks.

It got a little better in university though

NeonFlare

Finland1307 Posts

March 09 2009 07:27 GMT

#33

Groupwork with unmotivating group or lack of reward usually results in chaotic shit, though sometimes it can turn out to be hilarious.

I remember back in highschool we had good group that made the project 50% or so complete on a day or two without even wasting too much time...
but it lead all of us to think that rest would also be as easy -> nothing gets done -> the same morning we had to introduce it we all went and googled our asses off, gathered all important looking things related to subject and I rearranged it in MSWord to look more like selfproduced text. After that it was sent to next guy to add some pictures to make it less plain looking and so on.

In the end we managed to get around 80+ out of 100 (not sure what scoring system was used back then, think about previous numbers as percents) due our last few members who presented most of the work amazingly well despite the fact that they had barely seen the final version... ah the good times.

thedeadhaji

39489 Posts

March 09 2009 08:02 GMT

#34

switch companies so your coworkers are actually competent.

er, schools,

er, classes,

er... groups?

OneOther

United States10774 Posts

March 09 2009 08:27 GMT

#35

i am not a fan of group projects either but i haven't had any problems like this. luckily the people i have been grouped with care a lot about their grades, and our teachers implemented a system where we get to grade each other. if you don't work, i am going to give you a zero out of ten bitch! but yeah, definitely go to bed. either way, it's probably a good idea to talk to your teacher about what happened.

SOB_Maj_Brian

United States522 Posts

March 09 2009 10:13 GMT

#36

Wait till you get to college and have group work, hahha, hahahahah, haha, eh... Basically it gets a lot harder.

Loanshark

China3094 Posts

March 09 2009 10:14 GMT

#37

Man I hate group work where you get randomly assigned groups. Everything's much better when you get to pick your own, because everybody wants the hard workers in their group, so they get the pick of the crop. The other guys who don't do shit all end up together in their own little group but fuck them it's their fault they got themselves that shitty reputation.

Guilford

Australia290 Posts

March 09 2009 11:04 GMT

#38

I agree that groupwork suck and I am even so nice that I do another group's work for them.

ninjafetus

United States231 Posts

March 09 2009 14:31 GMT

#39

Whenever I have to do group work, I talk to the team right at the beginning and make them all agree that if someone is lazy and doesn't do anything, their name isn't going on the assignment. Then, since they know they will be held accountable, they tend to put forth more effort.

FragKrag

United States11538 Posts

March 11 2009 02:02 GMT

#40

Update:

One person ditched the presentation

the 7 of us had to present, and we got completely owned. It completely showed through that we did not prepare at all. Since we did peer grading, I completely nuked the CEO and some other guy. 27/40 ftw.