Y’know, I keep hearing about these participation awards messing up kids but no one I talk to is able to demonstrate a single person that grew up with them and how the trophies messed them up. I feel it’s a condescending view of children that they don’t understand the implications of a ‘participation trophy’ when they get one. It’s not like they aren’t expected to do their work in school and their grading is an extension of how hard they work.
Agreed. That participation rewards being handed out right and left it is not even funny.
Y’know, I keep hearing about these participation awards messing up kids but no one I talk to is able to demonstrate a single person that grew up with them and how the trophies messed them up. I feel it’s a condescending view of children that they don’t understand the implications of a ‘participation trophy’ when they get one. It’s not like they aren’t expected to do their work in school and their grading is an extension of how hard they work.