Should Children Get An Award Essay

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Should children receive an award for simply participating? Or should only the kids that do something excessive receive an award? Throughout history, society has altered their trophy giving policies. In America, rewarding all younger students in activities, has become tradition. At the moment, if you show up to an event, everyone earns an award; some believe it makes it fair if every young person achieves an award. On the contrary, other individuals think if everyone is granted with an accolade, even the kids that didn't do much, it will make them assume that they don’t have to work hard. Securing an award, may feel extravagant, however, giving an award to everyone, simply because they participate, is unacceptable.
Every child should not receive an endowment for participation, being that it will result in them not doing their best. Wentworth Miller once said, in his article about success, “I'm a very competitive person, but competitive with myself. I want to be the best that I can be, and if that means that I'm eventually …show more content…

Think about it, in the past, our country as a whole, was thriving, and look at us now. Day by day people are getting more and more apathetic; While drop out rates and raising as well as unemployment. Is it coincidence that we changed the trophy policy, and soon people became unmotivated? We, as a nation need to inform the younger generation to work hard for everything they want to achieve. If we just hand them an award for not doing much and not being the best they can be, it will cause lackadaisical among everyone. My great teacher Mr. Rose once said “success breeds success.” With that being said, laziness also breeds laziness, the more unmotivated people we have, it will spread like wildfire. This generation is the future of our country and we must teach them to work hard. Obviously, awards should not be presented to those who don't work for

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