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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Is your daughter practicing her management skills? Is she problem solving through what to do when one leg of the stool is shorter than the others?

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We talked about this. I'm not sure what more she can do. The friend asked for specific tasks, so my DD gave them to her, in writing, with clear instructions, and came up with a process: They would each do their assigned tasks during the week and come together on Sunday to write a conclusion. All the friend basically was supposed to do for the first phase was write the introduction (basically 6-7 sentences) and find an academic source of a similar study using a school-provided database. They were going to get together yesterday to write the conclusion together, but the friend hadn't performed her tasks at all (they're using Google classroom/Google Docs so dd can see any progress) so DD canceled b/c she suspected what was about to happen was the friend expected to come over and write the introduction under dd's supervision (translated: DD would end up writing it). Since DD had about 6 hours of homework in other classes yesterday, so she basically said we're not writing the conclusion until you draft an introduction and find a second source and canceled their meeting. It's Monday morning and the friend still hasn't done it. So, DD basically intends to tell teacher she doesn't want to partner anymore.

I suggested she present it as a dilemma and ask the teacher for a suggestion. But DD is concerned that if the friend cannot perform these basic tasks she will be similarly disengaged during the actual project. Which is probably true. So, she wants to save them both a lot of trouble now. The problem is dropping the friend 24 hours before the first assignment is due puts the friend on the hook to come up with her own project (the current project is dd's idea -- friend just glommed onto it) and do the lit review in 24 hours.

It's also not a "group" project in the sense that three or four kids are involved. Just the two of them. [/quote]

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