<p>Again, thanks for your time and insights. Group projects are and will continue to be a major part of my daughter’s college experience. In fact, this approach is one of the reasons that she chose this school. Our son, who is at a different college, says that group projects were the best part of his education. But, they can definitely be unfair - which is a real world experience.</p>
<p>The group members were assigned. The project is designed very intelligently with different parts being worth different amounts along the way. There are still chances for the group to work together.
This has been a great learning experience for her. And she knows that she deserves some of the blame here for the last-minute approach which she has owned up to with the prof. She is definitely trying to make the best of this but there is absolutely no way that she could do the entire project by herself. And that’s why she had to go to the prof.
It is fairly unbelievable that 4 of the group members are slackers - and that is the main point that my D made to the prof. That fact made it very hard for her to confront the others or go to the professor. She feels that if she had one other caring teammate, she could have handled this.
The only reason that we became so involved is that she interviewed my husband as part of her research. I am absolutely convinced that it was good that we counseled her about what to do. The one aspect that you all seem to agree on is that we should not contact the school. And we agree with this too at this point.</p>