Groupwork

Whenever I am in a class and I hear the teacher say, “OK, everyone we are going to do some group work” I almost want to scream because I strongly dislike group work. Many schools make their students do at least one group project in order to build life skills, but because of my experiences I believe that students should not make their students participate in group activities. There are many reasons on why I am strongly against the concept of group work, one of these reason is the different personalities of group members, there can be the good ones, like the good leader, or the one who always wants to do the hardest part, but it is the idea of the bad ones, like micromanagers and the one who does not do his or her part and leaves the group
No matter how much work each member of the group does, whether it be a ten page essay or a little art project, everyone gets the same grade. I believe that group members should only be graded on the part of the project that they do. One reason that this grading scale is terrible goes back to the idea of micromanagers and slackers. Whenever one person in the group decides to do every part of the project and ends up doing horrible on one of the parts, the entire group fails, not just the person who did all the work. Plus, these micromanagers might make group members do something they are not comfortable doing, again resulting in a failing grade.Similarly, if one person does no work, and the rest of the group does their parts perfectly, the group still fails. Another reason that group work grading is taking the fun out of group work is opposite of what I had mentioned before. The fact that the slacker can still do absolutely nothing to help with the project, and still get an A because the rest of the group did his work for him. I believe that the group should have gotten the grade since they did the work, and the slacker should fail because they did nothing. Finally the fact that no matter what section of the project each group member completes, they are all graded on the same scale. One student could write an essay, one could draw pictures connected to the story, and the other could write a script to reenact a part of the story. Each of these members of the group would be put on the same grade sheet and be graded as a whole and not individuals. Both of the previously stated facts are huge reasons on why I hate group work, the main reason why I hate group work is the fact that almost no work gets done because the group is either socializing or