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Should Students Participate In The Sport Right Or Wrong?

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If you had a child participating on a soccer team and worked really hard to become the V.I.P for the season and at the end of the year when the team sets up a team award ceremony, everyone gets the same trophy. Is this okay? After reading numerous research articles, along with opinions on social sites, I have come to the understanding of both positive and negative aspects to whether awarding students who just participate in the sport right or wrong. To clearly portray the understanding of this topic researchers have extensively reviewed the psychology as well as the social issues this could or could not cause, such as social anxiety, or a warped sense of self. Giving a student an award for participating could make them feel as if they should be rewarded for basically doing nothing or doing the minimal standard, or it could be opposite and motivate the student to do better in order to be rewarded better. …show more content…

About 50% of Americans believe that a trophy shouldn't be given out to losing participants or those who “just show up”. This same amount of people also have beliefs such as the rewards they get and don’t get now, teach them lessons for later on in life. They believe that if these participants get rewarded for not doing as well, they will expect much more for doing a lot less or the minimal. If you were to Google this question you would see an array of “yes” answers and “no” answers in opinion columns. Stanford University professor of psychology Carol Dweck states, “Kids should not receive a trophy for participation because it can take away from the lessons of

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