<p>I can’t even express my hatred for them in words… Okay I may have exaggerated there but seriously, I can’t stand them. Teachers are under the impression that students with higher grades should be grouped with students who get lower grades but it never works. Those who care about their grades always end up doing the work while the entire group gets credit. It’s not fair at all and extremely frustrating! The only time they are okay is when you get to do it with friends. My friends are responsible and know how it feels to be the one carrying the workload so everyone pitches in. However, I hardly ever find group projects to be helpful. They’re even worse when the teacher assigns each group a different topic but then you have to know each topic yourself. When other groups attempt to share what they’ve done, I usually get nothing out of it smh.</p>
<p>^exactly my viewpoint!</p>
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<p>I’m doing quite fine, actually.</p>
<p>Though I figure you’re talking more about the extremists in this thread.</p>
<p>working with adults in the workforce and working with immature high schoolers are two different things</p>
<p>^^ Agreed. It’s not that we can’t work well with people, it’s just frustrating when you’re forced to work with high schoolers who don’t seem to care about their grades or put in much effort. Not only that, but your grade could possibly be affected because of them.</p>
<p>I always hate group projects because I’m the only one who ever takes an initiative, and therefore I have to baby everyone around. like “oh do this and this and this and this is how you do it.” I also don’t trust people.</p>
<p>I don’t see that group projects and the work force are quite the same thing at all.
You’ll find, I think, that working with people and liking it are two different things. So when you say ‘You don’t like group projects therefore you will not do well in the real world’ I think your jumping to conclusions
If we said we all did poorly on group projects it might be a concern</p>
<p>^some people on here are saying that not only do they dislike working with other people, they are seemingly incapable of doing it without hogging the whole project. This is a result of a perfectionist attitude. Sometimes you have to accept that things won’t be perfect and nothing in the real world will go exactly how you want it to. Sometimes you just have to compromise and accept imperfection in others’ work.</p>
<p>Additionally, making a terrible group great is characteristic of leadership. You just have to push your group members, not take on all the responsibility yourself. You cannot just dismiss everybody else as a deadbeat. Assuming so is arrogant. People approach projects in different ways. I find it hard to believe that EVERYBODY in a given group is a deadbeat. If you believe so, you may want to reinvestigate your own standards and why you constantly need things done your way.</p>
<p>I hate group projects not because someone always ends up doing the majority of the work, but because they work is rarely rewarding or helpful. A lot of them are things that really don’t relate to what you’re learning, but are made just to give a group project. One that I really like though was we had to do a video project of a book we read and basically turn it into a movie. Adapting the book into a script, filming it, editing, and showing it to the whole class actually forced us to both read the book and really comprehend it. It was actually meaningful. But some of this stuff teachers come up with like when I had to do this thing were we all read a packet and had to take notes from the packet as a group and discuss and stuff, but there wasn’t much to discuss because we were just copying stuff from a packet and we could have taken the notes a lot quicker individually</p>
<p>Group Projects can be annoying at times if you’re working with people that your assigned to. There are people that complain, but do nothing. That’s what I dislike about group projects. But, you’re going to work in groups for the rest of your life with people that you may not like.</p>
<p>There’s a difference between being controlling in a group project and having no choice to take over all the work. If you’re stuck with a group of lazy, procrastinators who LITERALLY didn’t do anything. What choice do you have but to take over? </p>
<p>I had to deal with a group project where all we had to do was read a book and answer 2 essay questions in class…It only had 107 pages and the teacher gave us FIVE weeks to read it. 5 out of 32 students read the book, including myself. I attempted to work with others in my group the first day. I assigned them simple tasks of finding literary examples for the essays, while I began the first essay… In a span of 45 mins, 4 other people couldn’t find over 2 literary examples; which, the book was full of! The standard teacher collecting the paper for the next day motion blah blah. I still had hope, but of course. On the second day, I had to rush 1 essay in 15 mins without any help. I ended up with my first D in that class. The first essay being what even tipped the grade into a 40/50 and 15/50… </p>
<p>So, no. I don’t enjoy working with students too lazy to read 107 page book. I’m able to work in groups, but not when everyone chooses to be incompetent and lazy. I’m just hoping in the work force I won’t get a group that’s so insufferable. All I need is one other competent person and I’m happy.</p>
<p>Sorry about the rant, it’s been grinding my gears for couple months now. Haha :)</p>
<p>I know how you feel. I always end up doing all the work. I don’t really mind, but sometimes I have like tons of hw and I’m stuck doing everything.</p>
<p>High School group projects and the work force are two different things. High Schoolers usually don’t like to be told what to do depending on their maturity level. At my job were all comfortable working with each other to get what needs to be done - done. There is a large difference.</p>
<p>I always get stuck with 3 ignorant guys in everything. I feel so doomed, like I need to have control, and my breathing gets cut off and my bloods gets purple and I die.
I think I may have a problem.</p>
<p>The difference between group projects and working well with your coworkers is that a lot of kids just don’t care. At a workplace, everyone will do their job because they are being paid to do so. High school kids do not see the payout or point to school work. This is why I hate group projects! I will often try to work by myself, and if I can’t then I either do all the work or none of the work. Not by choice, it just seems to be how it always works out. I love working with people, but certain people just do not want to be worked with.</p>
<p>Lab projects in bio this past year were awful. It was my first year in a new school district, so I didn’t have any friends I could go work with right away. I actually wanted the teacher to assign groups so i wouldn’t have any trouble. A few times I just got answers from everybody else and was never in a “group”.
Group projects as in making posters or big reports? I’m fine with those. But I do better independently…</p>
<p>I hate group work with a passion. In a CC class this guy plagiarized the hand out essay example we were given…I turned him in, since we have to put our names to the same paper, and he got a whopping 10 points off our grade. I wouldn’t mind group projects if it was like, necessary in order to get the work done, but so far that’s definitely not been the case for me. It’s just been a huge headache.</p>
<p>Depends on the subject. I hate group projects in history, because, quite honestly, they usually involve more ART than history. And I hate art.
On the other hand, we had to make a Rube Goldberg for physics as a CLASS project, and I adored that.</p>
<p>It depends on who I’m working with. In ap bio this year, we had an extra credit project in which I did ALL the work…</p>
<p>AP classes, with a significant number of “unqualified” people, psych and APES are bad, as well as if an AP class has a small number of people. When you get a partner who 2’s the AP exam or gets a 35% on the final it is a nasty project. Especially if the other person is required major participation: TEACH THE CLASS FOR A WHOLE PERIOD PROJECT!</p>
<p>I love group projects in Calc BC–all smart people. It’s a general trend for ‘real’ APs. And Science Olympiad and Team math competitions are pure fun. Winning teams utilize their time to do problems together rather than doing a 50/50 type thing and check over the work in the time remaining :)</p>