‘You don’t get any credit': Student presents project to entire school, making sure classmate doesn't get any credit, leading to classmate getting removed from school program

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Eleonora Bader
Jan 23, 2024 6:00 PM EST

Every kid wants to do well in school without actually putting in the hard work, or maybe that's just me. I wasn't the brightest crayon in the box, nor did I put in the work and effort to get good grades, and looking back, I can see how annoying that must have been for the other students, especially when I was involved in a group project. Those were the absolute worst…

One student got really petty after one of his classmates tried to take partial credit in a joint project after not doing a single thing to contribute. This classmate assumed that OP was going to do all the hard work, and that he was going to get a good grade, even though he wasn't helping OP at all. After OP finished the project, he vowed to give his fellow classmate zero credit… And he knew just the way to go about it.

So when the time came to present the project, OP got clever… Next, check out this employee who brought their manager a pile of muddy ashes after he was told he needed to 'bring back his lab coat' following his resignation.

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    "While I smiled, the entire school went silent."
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    My project partner didn't do anything for the project, so I made sure he was held responsible for it.
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    When I was in 7th grade, I was at a private school, and for a project for one of my classes, I got paired up with the WORST person in my class. Over the weeks of the project, the PowerPoint presentation that we had shared with each other was only touched ONCE by him, and all he did was create a new slide (left it blank). I. Was. Pl. ED.
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    For the first time ever, I absolutely refused to do all the work. My idiot of a partner thought I was doing all the work for him and smiled at me every time classes started, looking smug. He never even bothered to check the PowerPoint. Little did he know that I had already informed our teacher, and that teacher gave me his blessings to just present my part, and I would be graded on that alone.
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    The day to present came, and we were to present our projects to the ENTIRE SCHOOL. Before the presentations started, he came up to me and asked if he could see the PowerPoint so he could prepare to speak his park. I just glared at him so hard he visibly paled and went back to his seat, where I continued to give him the stink eye the whole time until it was our time to present.
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    Luckily, I was in charge of the first half of the PowerPoint, so I started things off. I knew I hit it out of the park, based on how our teacher was nodding his head from the back of the room. At the end of my last time, I turned and looked at my partner, who had gone pale despite all of his freckles. "Alright, (insert partner name here). Ready to present your part?" I didn't bother waiting for a response and just clicked the
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    clicker. A blank slide showed up on the screen, exactly what he had contributed to the project, and then the Power Point ended. It took a few seconds for people to realize it was over, and there was the general hubba of confusion. Finally, the PRINCIPAL stepped up and asked my partner what was going on. Mr. Freckles looked away and mumbled something about it being on a flash drive
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    left upstairs in his backpack. He was allowed to leave the room to go retrieve it. I stood there, in front of the whole school, SMILING to myself, for TEN MINUTES. The idiot still hadn't returned, so my teacher suggested we move on with the presentations. A couple of teachers left to go find my partner, who was quickly found hiding in a closet in one of the classrooms upstairs.
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    I got a 98% on the project, and the idiot got a big, fat ZERO. He ended up failing the class and had to redo the year. Before I left the private school and went back to public schools for HS, he had managed to get kicked out of the school program, and I never heard from him again.
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    CoderJoel 5 hr. ago You made your power point. Reply Share 583 Draycos_Stormfang OP · 5 hr. ago Omg, so TRUE! 139 Reply Share
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    Somerset764 hr. ago My son did this too! He was in high school and had a terrible partner. He actually made 5 slides that started with "nick, this is your part" Ending in "Nick, you are a lazy ****. The principal laughed! Reply Share 166 Draycos_Stormfang OP· 3 hr. ago Omg, I should have done this instead of leaving the one blank slide he did! That's PERFECT!
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    Silly_Dragonfly4 - 3 hr. ago My daughter is a senior in HS and just experience this. I have always worried she was a big push over but she stood up to her project partner (who is a fair weather friend) and my girl put her in her place in front of everyone after friend was bragging to others in class saying she did most of the work. Nothing better than a public shaming like this when someone does these things. 54 Reply Share
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    Draycos_Stormfang OP · 3 hr. ago I think a public shaming is exactly what some of these people need. Having their reputation tarnished is bound to make a few changes! 32 Reply Share
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    ArreniaQ - 4 hr. ago another collaborative learning FAIL. Reply Share 21 Draycos_Stormfang OP - 3 hr. ago Seeing his face when he realized I wasn't going to bail him out was worth it. I was smiling the whole dar time I was up there on the stage! Reply Share 24
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    The_Raji 4 hr. ago This is amazing. Pretty crazy that you had to do a presentation in front of the whole school in 7th grade! I don't think I'd be able to do that. 20 Reply Share
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    Draycos_Stormfang OP 3 hr. ago To be fair, it was a school of about 30ish students, so it wasn't any worse than presenting to a normal classroom full of kids. 24 Reply Share
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    Play_Tennis 2 hr. ago Y'all had some nice teachers. Mine always told me I would need to find a way to complete the project as a team because that's how it would be in the real world when I got a job. I'd argue that they would be fired in the workplace. Little did I know, there are people who get by in the workplace the same way they got by on these projects lol. ↑ 21 ↓ Reply Share
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    Stopher 1 hr. ago Group projects are annoying in general. Sometimes lazy people don't contribute. Sometimes perfections don't let you contribute. It's a nightmare. 45↓ Reply Share
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    Xuan-Wu 1 hr. ago I posted how I played my part in a similar situation. I gave the lazy his sheet of papers. But it was a HUGE COINCIDENCE none of his pages were marked nor were the graphs, pictures etc. unlike mine or the teachers'. He only had to present the central part of the project.
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    He stumbled on every new scientific word, couldn't fine (too bad isn't it?) The documents his text refered to, while I smile evilly. We were the only group with people having differents grades. (17m I think at the time) 43 ↓ Reply Share
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