I really hate slackers. I define slackers as someone who has time to do work, but doesn't do it. The student in the back of the class taking a nap. Yeah, those. They make me angry. In fact, a lot of people make me angry. But these people make me the most angry 'cause 9 out of 10 times, I will be in a group with them, hands down, end of story. And when the teachers believe that they have actually done something, they will be uber happy and impressed, grading leniently. Elsewhere, though, the good students will turn in their papers, filled with sweat and blood (metaphorically, of course), then get a lower grade than the slacker. Why? 'Cause the slacker NEVER does anything and the grade encourages them to do something.
Now, I normally just ignore these people, but when you have a big group project and your group is 99% slacker material, I sorta have to pay attention. So, like, I walk into the class and into my group. Immediately I begin sorting things out, organizing. I assign roles and jobs, giving myself the bulk of the work. That way, they can't screw it up that bad. The next day, they come back and I ask for a report. All I get are confused looks and mumbled apologies. Painful. I give them one more chance...the next day? Same thing. Finally, I take it all into my hands and finish the project all by myself.
The weekend passes and I walk into the class and tell the teacher. "Look, my group is s**t and I did this project by myself." He says, alright, I'll talk to them. Seventh period rolls around and what happens? He announces, to the class, "You have by Thursday to resolve your problems." As I stare, slack jawed at the teacher, my members are asking me, "What are going to do? We don't have anything!" So I turn around with a scowl that makes them shrink away and say, "Yeah, that's why I did the entire thing by myself." In the end, I was forced to share the glory and one of the members dropped out entirely. The other one offered up information I had DAYS ago.
Alright, okay, I can deal with this. Thursday comes around and we present. Our presentation sucks, our poster sucks, our material SUCKS. Everything SUCKS...and BADLY. A week later, we get our grades for it back. Out of twenty I got 18. Bleah, not that bad. But what does my other group member get? 19!!! WHAT IS THAT?!? He tells her that her speech skills are very good whereas I was abrupt. Thinking back on it, I had made HER part flow into mine with some inserted words from myself. And then I had enunciated well, told my material and explained to the class. She had been uttering "Uhm...er...uhh..." the WHOLE time where I had none. But she got the higher grade.
Yes, in all fairness, it was my own fault. I should have told her what to say, vaguely, and then when she could not produce anything...I would jump in and do it all myself. Ah well, I know now, right?
*KILL MAUL RIP*
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The Shadows Are Alive
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Yeah, the new girl was all right to hang out with. We talked some...but when it came to the project, it was all me. I spent like hours slaving away on the project while she did whatever she did. So, by the time the project was due, I handed it in, ALL mine, but she got half credit. I was upset with that so for the next project, I requested that I worked alone. My teacher asked me why and I said that I felt like I was the one doing all the work. My teacher agreed to let me work alone ^^ So, that ended well.
But, now, in high school, I'm always stuck with stupid people. I think teachers like to put one smart person with like 5 stupid people to help bring up morale or something...or just make the smart person an influence. Little do these teacher know that this way, it's bringing down how well smart people are doing...I think some teacher's student grouping ideas are just plain dumb...
But, enough of my ranting. Well, you learned a little lesson from this...next time, I bet you'll get the highest grade ^^