I Cannot Work With Him

you have to collaborate you are a team a family you must work together I cannot work with him! a fourth-grader yelps. Or her or him or them or you or anyone. I will do this group project by myself. That is not a group project, I tell him. But he refuses. Flat out. Because he is smarter than anyone else. Twenty-five years later I discover that he has had many jobs but has not kept any of them for more than a week.