<p>"Right now, all the professor knows is that her group has one slacker. He doesn’t know that the rest of the group has left the building and is counting on your D to do all the work. He doesn’t know that it is affecting your D’s performance in the rest of her classes. </p>
<p>He needs to be informed."</p>
<p>The only workable solution that I can imagine the prof offering would be to allow the D to submit an individual project. Otherwise, there’s not much he can do. He also would have every right to not allow the student to submit an individual project because the problems with the group have been ongoing, and the D has waited until the last minute to let him know.</p>
<p>Your contacting the professor and/or administration will simply underscore the fact that your D has not done the work that she was required to do. Unless your D gives written permission for the faculty to talk to you about her academics, they will not be able to talk to you.</p>
<p>If she gives such permission for you to try to fix her problems with a group project, that would be indicating that your D lacks the maturity to be in college. Virtually every college student probably has some problems involving group projects. They learn to solve those problems without Mom or Dad intervening. However they choose to solve the problem, the students learn lessons that will help them cope with group projects they’ll undoubtedly encounter throughout their careers.</p>
<p>“. Now, if the professor does not have a humane response to her email, it will be very hard for me to not contact the school. By the way, the professor is also her advisor. Tomorrow, the groups are supposed to present orally on their outlines. I can’t imagine what the other team members are even thinking.”</p>
<p>Your D dropped the ball as did the other group members. By requesting confidentiality of the professor, the D also is enabling the slackers. If she’s the only one who has done any work, she needs to present her report as an individual report, and let the chips fall as they may for the students who didn’t do anything.</p>