This happened last school year, yet my friends involved are still pissed off at me and have told all of our mutual friends that I’m a dick and I’m starting to question if I’m an asshole.
So, some quick context during the last month of school my history class was assigned a presentation we could do with up to 4 friends and we’d have until the last week of school to do it but we we’re never told the date of when we’d actually be presenting (this will be important later.)
But me and my friends were getting great progress done on the presentation and even got close to getting ready to rehearse, but then on Monday, a week before we were due to present, I got the flu, which of course is awful enough just because I would have tons of missing work, but this could screw over the presentation. I was still working from home and around 4 days later I was back in school and low and behold I missed 2 tests, and I had a shit load of stuff to do and so of course I’m trying to figure everything out and I set the time to make up a test at 9:15, during that class period and I had literally zero idea that was the day we were set to present. I had still texted my buddies saying, "hey guys going to be out again today, making up a test!" and only one of them responded saying "seriously?" This confused me a lot because I had no clue what the problem was and I immediately responded asking what the problem was, no response. Test goes by and the hour ends and I head to my next class, and I actually run into one of my friends on my way there and he looks incredibly upset and basically yells "You made us fail jackass" and walked away, none of them have really talked to me or let alone looked at me since then, really wondering if I was in the wrong here.
I don’t think you’re the asshole for skipping, but I think you should’ve reach out to the teacher who assigned the group project and asked if the group could make this up as well.
Info To make sure I understand this properly: you scheduled a makeup exam for a different class during the class period that you’re normally in history knowing you could need to present in that class any day? Eta: if that’s the case why couldn’t you schedule the makeup test so that it didn’t overlap with history class and therefore wouldn’t mess up the presentation?
ESH. You knew the presentation was coming up, and you should have made an effort to reach out to your friends and teacher to find out the date and time. Your friends knew the presentation was coming up, and they knew that you were out sick, so they should have made an effort to reach out to you to inform you of the date and time of the presentation. Your teacher knew that you were out sick, so they should have reached out to you to inform you of the date and time of the presentation. When you didn’t show up, the teacher should have reached out to you to reschedule instead of failing your group. I feel like all of you could have behaved more responsibly. If I was your parent, I would definitely have contacted the teacher to ask why my kid and his group were being failed over an excused absence. I wonder if there isn’t more to the story because it seems implausible that the whole group would fail when one member didn’t show.
Just some context for that last part: my friends had skipped over everything I had written for the presentation (which was about like 80%) causing them to have read like 4 sentences out loud (most of which were sentences explaining what I had wrote.) I am very confused on why they did this as they were allowed to just read what I had written and they would’ve gotten a passing grade. But I do agree better communication should’ve happened here.
Sounds like they failed themselves lmao you didn’t list your age, but if you were older than 12 they should know that during a group project you’ve gotta be prepared to present what other people wrote too.
Weird that they put 80% of the work on you and then complained that you weren’t there to present it. They definitely dropped the ball. The fact that they’re now ignoring you is a blessing in disguise because now you can focus on finding better friends.