Calendar problems

For one of our projects we have to work with a first year and design a calendar based on quotes on a theme, using experimental typography. So my partner and I decided to do our calendar on the very well known movie called "Mean girls". Since we are often noticed people use quotes from that movie in every day life, so we thought it would be a perfect movie to do since people love the quotes they would by the calendar! Anyways, as the project goes on I find that my partner and I are working really well together. Her stuff is really nice and it is working really well with mine. Yet, I hear and see other peoples work and there partners aren't trying as hard as they need to be, or they aren't doing work at all...so people complained to the teachers. Resulting in the teachers pulling the first years and second years together and telling the first years that some of the second years feel that there work is not up to pare with ours. First of all I found this extremely rude since we are all learning. But at the same time I just don't think they took this project as seriously as they needed to and rushed it. In the end the professors told us that we no longer had to be partners anymore and we each needed to do 6 but the first years only had to hand in 3 to be marked. So in the end the first years got of the hook for not doing there work and doing horrible work. How is this fair? and how are they suppose to work effectively in a group if when the going gets rough they just go there own way? I found it extremely stupid, since last year we did the same project and we were having the same problems with people not contributing equally and we had to work it out ourselves like adults? not getting the professors to fix our mess. However, They did give us the option to stay with our partners if we thought it was best and that what my partner and I decided to do. Yet, to the people in second year who didn't I am actually very disappointed in them. Yes, it would have been harder but they need to take the leader role and help them and push them.