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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think there is some cheating, but my kid has to claw and fight for every "A" he gets and does not cheat--he has said that he catches other kids trying to look at his answers. He goes to a private school, if that matters-- although I think cheating happens everywhere.

He recently turned in a partner project where he did all the work and had to put his partner's name on the final result. I can verify that because he spent an entire weekend stressing/doing the whole thing. I told him "that's life-- you'll have all kinds of people who won't pull their weight, and you just need to learn who they and deal with it."

There is a lot of pressure placed on kids now-- I can imagine why they feel they must resort to cheating. [/quote]

Group projects always have  different levels of contribution to the final project and that is life.  I am sure teachers intentionally pair weaker students with stronger for many of these projects..i would do the same.  It is a learning opportunity all the way around.

I have seen parent march up to the school and demand that their snowflake be placed with other strong students.  Very short sighted approach IMO.[/quote]

PP here-- I agree with you. My DS said he knew the kid wasn't going to contribute, and I told him that if he already knew that, he should have planned for it and started earlier. I would have been more upset on his behalf if they didn't have a lot of time...but one didn't work (and that was known) and the other put it off...so there you go. Now DS has the same kid for another project due this week-- that is kind of p*ssing me off. It's a shorter turnaround and DS is having to go in early and stay late to get it done + finals, quizzes, ECs, etc. [/quote]

It pissed me off too because it is not fair but life is not fair.  Better to be capable of handling the work load then only be capable of a lesser contribution.  I just realized that it was my Dc's fate ot generally be paired with weakere students for the duration.  DC ended up making a lot of money tutoring later in HS so being able to patiently teach peers has benefits.[/quote]

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