Personal Opinion Essay: The Joys Of Working In Groups

Every student enjoys hearing their teacher say they’ll be working in group that day because all they hear is “talk time with my best friend”. Working in groups can be a positive thing, because it’s meant to be less work for students but in reality it just makes it harder and it’s our fault, I myself have realized working in groups is a huge problem because I always go with my friends and we do everything but the work assigned to us. Teacher expect for students to get together and work together to get the best grade possible but when I get in groups all I experience is that we don’t focus on the work, I get stuck doing the work myself and it harms the grade I get.
We all know that when students get into groups they focus on catching up more than the

That person always ends up being me, although I like to talk and catch up with my friends I like getting A’s in my work more so when I see that the class is almost over and we haven’t accomplish nothing I start being the annoying person who starts to worry and I usually end up telling everybody not to worry about it and I’ll do everything, which means I’m doing work for four people and I have a job and other classes to worry about, also my group can have better idea than me which can help the group grade , but I take the responsibility all to myself because I feel like if I give them any responsibility they won’t do it unless I’m on top of them like little kids or if they do it they won’t put any effort into what I told them to look up so at the end of the day I prefer going through all the hard work myself because I know I took my time. Pretty much when I’m in a group with my friends I don’t trust any of them to do the work and that’s a very big problem and one I always make because I can’t tell my friends no so I end up doing everything and they lay back and receive the good