Groups can only function correctly if every member does their part. The worst group I've had to work with is hard to choose. So, I'm just going to generalize and say that every single group I
had to be a part of in high school was terrible. Half of the people in the group didn't care and just wanted to sleep or do whatever slackers like to do. The other half was a bunch of bossy kids who were ignorant of everyone's ideas but their own. Most of the time I just ended up either parting ways with the group and doing my own thing or laying down the law because I didn't want a terrible grade because of some slacker/ignorant teenager. By the time I was a junior I had given up on the fact that a bunch of high school kids grouped together for an hour and then left alone in the library for an hour with no supervision could ever produce a quality group project.
The best group I have ever been a part of was my dance line my senior year. By the time I was a senior I had been in dance for 15 years. So, after 15 years I had gone through dancing along side a lot of different girls. Since I can remember there had always been drama, jelousy, and competing to be better than everyone else in order to get put in front of the dances, and not stuck in the back. That all changed my senior year. The girls on my line all worked so well together. I was the captain that year and was the one who had to deal with the cattyness which I wasn't excited for that coming year. To my surprise the year went smoothly. We all encouraged each other to try harder and better ourselves, not to compete with each other but to grow as dancers. That is for sure one of the best groups I have ever been able to be a part of.
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Unfortunately, my high school group communication memories are pretty bad also. There is something about a bunch of adolescent girls being forced to be together that brings out the worse in them. It's strange but true. I really hope these experiences have not lead you to dislike working in future groups. It's difficult when people don't have common interests or have personalities that just don't mesh well together. High school relationships are based on these characteristics and they spill onto academic relationships. Your dance experience was probably better because you all shared a love of dance and wanted each other to succeed. This mutual love and interest made things better. I guess the goal is to relate each other, be unselfish and work hard for yourself as well as everyone else.
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