Work Together!

By : Dr. Chiao-Lin Nien

I honestly think that working together is a horrible thing. Not only do you argue with the people in your group, if you choose a friend for a partner you will get side tracked. I'm not saying that working together should be banned altogether, but maybe lay low on it for a little while. I mean working in groups is fun for kids from Kindergarten to like 6th grade, but when you get into Junior High and High School, kids start to become rude and don't like to work together.

In 6th grade I had to pick one partner to work with for a final project that will risk your grade dropping really low. So, I picked my best friend to work on it with me. Not knowing that she was going to get sick the week we needed to work on it...I had to do most of the work by myself and we both got the same grade for it. With me doing all the work ever since then I hated working in groups. Yeah, we got a good grade but it still made me a little angry.

Not everyone hates to work together. I was reading on I Love Team Work, that team work is a great way to keep your mind focused and moving. What fools! Working in a group will make you lose focus because someone will start talking about how their weekend was or how much drama they have, always something to make the other team members get less focused.

If working together is supposed to make us smarter than why is it that a lot of people that work in groups get low or bad scores on their projects. Also a lot of groups may do bad work because they couldn't get it done so they rush at the last minute.