Why Kids Should Not Be Allowed In High School
Earning a trophy for just participating? Sound familiar. Have you ever gotten a trophy on some team and the kind that just played in the sand get the same one.
Kids are getting trophies for participating but can that cause kids to grow up always expecting a reward affect the way they grow up. This has happened to me aswell when I was younger on my baseball team I wasn't very good and always playing in the dirt and this other girl was really good and we both got the same trophy and that made me feel really good but the other girl was really upset. I’m one of the victims whose budget had to got to the rest of the twelve percent of the yearly budget has gone to buying trophies. So people are spending money just to reward kids that shows them …show more content…
Though in my experience when i was given a trophy for participating in softball that made me think that i was good and i practiced and practiced so i was good and i felt good. Yet as the years proges the kids are rewarded for everything from behavior to actions. For example at a summer camp in Maryland gives awards every day-this “day” is just one hour long. The American Youth Soccer Organization gives out roughly 3500 trophies and awards every season. That right there tells you that kids are given and rewarded for things such as participating and to think that, that's only in two cases. There are other cases where children are not awarded a trophy but there parents may keep saying that they are so proud of you and your great at a sport when really you probably just sat there playing in the dirt.Sound familiar?.This will probably make you feel really good about yourself but have you ever stopped and thought do i really deserve this
Kids are getting trophies for participating but can that cause kids to grow up always expecting a reward affect the way they grow up. This has happened to me aswell when I was younger on my baseball team I wasn't very good and always playing in the dirt and this other girl was really good and we both got the same trophy and that made me feel really good but the other girl was really upset. I’m one of the victims whose budget had to got to the rest of the twelve percent of the yearly budget has gone to buying trophies. So people are spending money just to reward kids that shows them …show more content…
Though in my experience when i was given a trophy for participating in softball that made me think that i was good and i practiced and practiced so i was good and i felt good. Yet as the years proges the kids are rewarded for everything from behavior to actions. For example at a summer camp in Maryland gives awards every day-this “day” is just one hour long. The American Youth Soccer Organization gives out roughly 3500 trophies and awards every season. That right there tells you that kids are given and rewarded for things such as participating and to think that, that's only in two cases. There are other cases where children are not awarded a trophy but there parents may keep saying that they are so proud of you and your great at a sport when really you probably just sat there playing in the dirt.Sound familiar?.This will probably make you feel really good about yourself but have you ever stopped and thought do i really deserve this