Yippee! Imagine - whether one wins or loses, one still gets a trophy!
"Why?" one would ask. Because you "played well" - you didn't win, but, you played well. Can you imagine if that mindset were applied to getting into college?
"You didn't get A's, but, you showed effort. Welcome to Harvard!"
As team players, my students, one does NOT win the League, County or Division Championship based on effort. I read an article about this phenomenon, prevalent among many town sports leagues - "Great game (...even though you didn't win ...)!
Then, what are we teaching team players?
Someone always loses,but does she/he win a trophy?
Your thoughts on the topic?
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I believe that giving each child a trophy even if they lost is a bad thing. In life, you won't get rewarded for failure. At their young age, they will start wanting rewards for everything later in life because of this. The children should learn to accept their failure at a young age because everyone fails at one point or another in life. Giving them trophies even though they lost might seem helpful, but in the long run, they are corrupting the children.
I do not like the idea of everyone gets a trophy because it makes people lose the idea of being better at something. Kids need to be motivated to become better athletes or students. If they got a trophy or a reward for not accomplishing something, they will think that it is okay to not do their best.
Being as civil as possible in my response, I personally think that people with this mentality are 100% "misguided." If you lose, you don't deserve a trophy. Why? Because you LOST. If this were applied to college acceptance, I'd be on the next plane to England to attend Oxford this coming fall. However, I live in the reality that even if though you gave effort, reward shouldn't be given to a loss.
I can sympathize the motive behind giving everyone a trophy because of effort, but doing this would only lead to more harm than good.Competition is essential for everyone. Losing is not something everyone wants, but it is something everyone needs because losing gives insight to what they did wrong, and they can use that insight to better themselves. If everyone is a winner, then no one will improve or be a better person.
I think that as we get older. As we have many failures and many successions in life we should not really give trophies to those who fail. I mean it is actually easy to understand that we can have some failures when getting into college but we are actually showing effort and technically that is a trophy. When it comes to actual sports, I don't think that it is appropriate to have a trophy for losers.
I feel that if we give every child a trophy it is just setting them up for failure. In life the person who works the hardest and is the winner of anything is awarded. A child should not be rewarded if he does not work as hard or is not blessed with the same gifts as the other children. If a child has been rewarded his whole life for losing, how can he work in the business world. His boss will fire him and mom and dad will cannot protect him anymore.
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