Law student completes her section of group project, group rewrites her part without telling her, then demands she fix the poor rewrite at the last second, she refuses and reports them to the lecturer: 'Accused me of being lazy and risking their grades'

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Emma Saven
Nov 30, 2025 7:00 PM EST

Group projects are either the start of an ever-blossoming friendship…or the end of one. Working with a team is fun, social, and insightful. That is, if everyone puts in an equal amount of time and effort, whilst ensuring their communication remains strong. Because if you lack efficient structure and communication, your group work may end up much like the Titanic…drowned and divided in two. This law student didn't want to let her team down, as she far more enjoyed her time dry on land…so she made sure to finish her portion of their project early. 

So when she went back to read through their final draft just days before the due date, she was shocked to find her entire section rewritten and structured. Much like a bad facelift, her work was unrecognizable. She confronted the traitors and questioned when and why they had all agreed on this. Their excuses were to 'improve the flow, synchronization, and blah blah blah'…Forgetting to inform her that they were meeting outside of college to complete it…The best part? Days later, they called her demanding that she rewrite the whole section from scratch, as they've realized they're unhappy with their edited version. They might as well have been dressed up as clowns…because she just LAUGHED in their face at that idea!

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  • Her group started threatening her that they would inform the lecturer about her refusal. But she had the receipts…and was going to get to her first, exposing the truth behind their ‘picture-perfect’ project…Let's just say those straight A grades are about to turn into the Cafeteria mince meat…crushed and unable to look it in its eyes…

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    AITA for refusing to redo a project for my group after they ignored everything I contributed?

    Hi so I'm 19 and freshly in uni, I have a pretty good passion towards my major so I don't mind working on it.
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    We had a huge group assignment worth a chunk of our grade. Our lecturer told us clearly that everyone had to contribute fairly and that the group was going to be marked as a whole.
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    The groups were random and I ended up in a group with 3 others I didn't know, at first everything was okay for the first week or so.
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    We made a plan, divided the sections, and set the dead lines for the assignment. I finished my part early and I sent it to the group chat asking if Anyone wanted edits or changes to be made in case they weren't happy with it.
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    Nobody ended up replying after 2 days so I assumed everything was okay and I shifted my focus to my other courses.
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    A week later when we met up to combine everything together, I realised that they had rewritten my entire section without even telling me.
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    Not just edited or paraphrased, I mean like completely rewritten my entire work, they started from scratch and replaced it all.
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    When I asked why they said they felt like doing it themselves and that it would flow better and synchronise with their work more, which seemed like an outrage to me because they should've just told me if they were working on it together out of uni.
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    I told them they could have at least told me the rewrote it and they just brushed me off and said it wasn't personal, but it sure felt personal, Two days after that, one of them messaged saying the rewritten section wasn't good enough and asked me to redo it from scratch.
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    They also wanted it done within a day because the deadline was close. I flat out said no.
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    I told them I already did my part, they ignored it, rewrote it behind my back and now they expected me to fix their mess at the last minute?!
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    Who do they think they are thinking that would ever happen. That started a whole argument where they accused me of being lazy, uncooperative and risking their grades, saying just because I didn't care about education I shouldn't drag them down with me.
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    I told them if they didn't like their version that wasn't my problem. When I refused again they kept pushing until someone in the group said that they were going to tell the lecturer I was refusing to contribute to the assignment.
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    I screenshotted everything, my completed work, the messages, the time stamps, and then emailed my lecturer personally to make them aware of the situation and to send the photos over as proof.
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    Now the group is furious because the lecturer told them he'd be assessing contribution individually instead of giving one group grade.
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    Now they're blaming me for so called 'overreacting' and in turn punishing everyone else instead of just fixing the situation that the group had.
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    WHICH MIND YOU THEY CAUSED. I told my parents about it and they said I should've just done it to maintain the peace, my mate tho said they're just using me as a backup and got caught so that's reassuring in a way.
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    So AITA for not doing the work or no?
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    ThePlumage NTA. Good on you for telling the TA what was going on and showing all the evidence. If you were in the wrong, the TA would've called you out on it. "Keep the peace" is often a way of saying "let people walk all over you." Plus, I don't see the point in "keeping the peace" with people you probably won't interact with much beyond this project.
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    ThePlumage Yeah, your parents' advice baffles me. The only way I could see what you did being an issue is if these classmates were somehow related to people who are prominent in your field of study, which I highly doubt, and even then, that still doesn't excuse their behavior.
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    OP aussieforeverr Nope I didn't know them at all, it's a criminal law class so it's pretty big, but yeah it still doesn't excuse their behavious
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    UrbanHuaraches INFO: you specifically mentioned putting it in the group chat, waiting two days for feedback, and then "shifting focus." Did you ever look at the group chat again after those two days? What kind of other conversation happened in the chat after that?
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    OP aussieforeverr I did check every day, my phones a constant use of mine but there still wasn't a reply
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    thinksying This was a good question and a good response. You didn't drop the ball and didn't ghost your team at any point, but they did to you. I think your parents are wrong. It was good you went to the professor after you tried multiple times to communicate with your team. Group projects can actually be fun, and good preparation for actual office jobs. But sometimes there is nothing you can do with bad teammates besides do your part to the best of your ability and document your time and work.
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