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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Welcome to the real world. You have to be able to work with other people, and in some cases drag up stragglers, and you’re evaluated on the basis of whether or not your team gets the job done.

If that’s uncomfortable for you or your child, gainful employment may not be their (or your) best option.[/quote]

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a school environment of peers of entirely different than a work environment. And if it's standard then yes she'll have to suck up doing most of the work when she gets dud partners and get used to it I guess. But it felt like way more of these (or maybe just more bad luck on partners) this year vs last which is why i asked. 
- OP [/quote]

PP. Sure, it's different, but it's a decent analog for what they'll experience later in life. When you get right down to it, most of life (including work, parenting, being part of a family) is graded group work. Life isn't fair, and one of the best things you can do for your kid is to help them understand this and help them move beyond the anxiety that unfairness creates if it's out of their control. This is coming from decades of TJ experience, btw.[/quote]

I’m not aiming to reinforce anxiety and sure you have to work together as adults but the school dynamics are really different from how team projects operate at work. There is much more accountability and recourse in the latter if someone isn’t doing the part they were assigned.

It’s been 3 major projects now in just the last few months where DC has ended  up doing an outsized amount of the work.

Useful reality check that this amount of group projects is normal. It still strikes me as a really high amount but if it is what’s been going on for years and just is the norm then yes they’ll just need to suck it up.

But I’m biased because I hated group projects too as a kid.

- OP[/quote]

Yeah, this is another way that TJ is different than the base high school.[/quote]

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