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Debate: Should all children recieve a trophy or medal in sporting events despite losing?
Side: NO, Life Lesson

all children should not receive a trophy or medal in sporting event just like all students should not get "A's" for simply showing up for class and/or behaving right in class. This gives them a sense of entitlement and that they can behave and/or simply show up and earn reward. That's not how life works. And, by doing this, it makes it very hard for the teacher, coach, etc. to maintain discipline and/or keep students engaged. With this no child left behind law, it seems that students are allowed to pass through the grades because teachers are very concerned with keeping their jobs, administrators want to keep their charters, and no one wants to hurt the parents and/or students feelings. I remember taking an action research class, and a couple of the students did their action research projects on students who have made it up to the 11th grade but aren't reading at grade level and I was amazed that the students were allowed to advance this high without anyone working on reading with them. And when students say that a subject is boring, we're supposed to make it interesting for them. I was in special education from grades K -12 and my parents told me that if I wanted to get out of special education and increase my chances of success in life, I'd better get off my duff and work hard on my studies and act right, even though others didn't and my behavior may not always be rewarded. If I would have told my parents that I thought a subject was boring and that I didn't want to do it, they would have said, "Well, if you don't do it, you won't advance. We'll help provide the tutoring and coaching, but you have to do the work - there was no choice on that." They - both my parents and the teachers would have been a lot tougher on me to learn it. The message was that I'd better have the self motivation to do it, regardless if I get attention for it or are rewarded for it. And as for paying for good grades, my parents always rewarded me when they chose to but they told me that they would reward as they saw fit, not for me to think that I was entitled to being paid for grades and/or chores. I've recently completed my master of arts in Education, Curriculum and Instruction and I'm job searching and no one is giving me the job. When I submit my resume, interview, etc., the interviewer thanks me for coming in for the interview, wishes me well, and/or lets me know that they will call me if I'm the one that they want. No one rewards you for higher education and no one guarantees you the job after graduation, no matter how good your resume is, how nice you are, how educated you are, who you know, etc. These kids coming out of schools today are much too fresh and will have a very rude awakening when they get out of school and into the working world
Debate: Should all children recieve a trophy or medal in sporting events despite losing?
Side: NO, Life Lesson

By giving every player/team a trophy just for playing sends the wrong message. It tells the kids that lose every game that you don't have to try because at the end you will get the same thing the winners get. It doesn't give them any reason to try hard or try to get better. By doing this your telling the kid that when he/she grows up you don't have to work hard because you'll still get the same thing as the person who did try hard. Your even sending a bad message to the kids that wins every game. When they see the last place team gets the same thing they got, there is no reason to try anymore. Why do we even play sports if know matter how bad or good you do the end result is the same. Now when kids are first starting out in sports, which is usually around 4 or 5 years old, then I believe everyone should get a trophy. The cut off line for me is 8 years old. Once you become that age only the winners should get a reward, not the losers. By giving every kid a trophy no matter what, you are not preparing them very well for their adult life. And you all wonder why your kids are spoiled brats that think everything should be given to them with a silver spoon. The longer you coddle them the harder it will be for them when the become adults
Debate: Should all children recieve a trophy or medal in sporting events despite losing?
Side: NO, Life Lesson

When i got my first trophy in my Tae Kwon Doe class as a young teenager, i felt proud and happy. I believe that if every promotion class if i recieved a trophy, that confidence feeling will go away. I am totally speaking for me and hopefully for others. It is like food. If i had chinese food everyday, i would get bored with it. Everyday, i would expect chinese on my plate. If someone in this blue world, a child would gain confidence EVERY time, and still learn to work hard...i say why not. I agree that children should be taught to work hard because in this world, you have to work hard to get what you want....unless you are a child of someone rich. Every dependable debate. Well everything is dependable.
Debate: Should all children recieve a trophy or medal in sporting events despite losing?
Side: NO, Life Lesson

No i was once on a basketball team and we went all the way to the finals and there was a kid who sat on the bench the entire year and skipped practice and once we got to the finals we got blown out by like 20 points and the kid blamed all of us for not winning we all worked hard we didn't complain but everyone else on the other team hate this kid on there team for the same reason no if you don't work for it or you didn't win get over it
Debate: Should all children recieve a trophy or medal in sporting events despite losing?
Side: NO, Life Lesson

Teaching a kid they are a winner no matter what they do is wrong to the kid your doing it to. They grow up thinking they are good at something that they are not it just builds them up for failure later on in their teens when they get smoked on the field, court, or whatever venue they are playing on/in. Sure it would build their confidence in the sport if you gave them a trophy and yes they may get passionate about that sport but it does not tell them to work hard to get what they want. People here are saying that its just a game why does it have to be a lesson in life it's just a game. First off, your naive if you believe that not everything we do in life is a lesson because it is. Sorry, life is one big lesson rather it be in sports or at work. As parents you need to be teaching your kids to work hard and contribute on their team as a player. Sure it's a sport but what do sports teach us? Team work (applicable when your in a school environment and in the work place), competitiveness (applicable when competing for a raise), hard work which is self- explanatory. These are just a few examples of lessons sports teach people. The liberal mindset that we are all good at whatever we try is wrong, cause we simply are not. It's like trying to turn a 350 pound offensive lineman into a cornerback. It's stupid and wouldn't work. Why? While the player may excel as a lineman due to his size he would more than likely fail as a cornerback because of the tasks the position requires. This does not make him a horrible football player it just makes him unsuited to be a cornerback but great to be an offensive lineman. Play on your kids strengths in order to make them better and do not force the kids who try hard to achieve in sports to settle for mediocracy.
Debate: Should all children recieve a trophy or medal in sporting events despite losing?
Side: NO, Life Lesson

In a race, the person who crosses the finish line first gets a 1st place trophy. The next person to cross receives a 2nd place trophy and the 3rd gets a small medal. Everyone after that gets nothing; because they didn't meet the standards for completing the race against all other contestants. This has been a tradition for generations and generations. So why must we change this to please everyone?Today, young kids who participate in recreational sport leagues are all given the same trophy when the season ends. This is odd because the league is set up like any other professional league. Two teams play against each other, and the winner moves up in the standings while the other stays the same. At the end of the season the two best teams play together. But instead of giving the winning team a 1st place trophy, everyone is given the same trophy (in the entire league). Is this because the league or the controlling soccer moms feel that it is “unfair” to single a child out? YES. In a competitive team sport, there is no question that the winning team should be treated differently than the rest of the teams. They tried their best, they worked at it, and they won because of it. Therefore, they should receive the greatest honor. I am not saying that there should be no reason why the runner up should get something to congratulate their determination, but parents today shelter their children too much from the real realities of the world, and ultimately very importantly its life lessons. They remember the sadness of losing as a child and don’t want their children to feel the pain of losing like they did. This is a very big problem. The very reason why parents put their kids into sports at such a young age is to teach them DISCIPLINE, TEAMWORK, COOPERATION, DETERMINATION and even FAILURE. If a child doesn't learn these simple factors of life, how is the child going to go through life when he realizes that they aren't going to get a trophy for everything? In life, at a job, when you mess up you will NOT be rewarded with a trophy for effort. YOU GET FIRED; THAT’S YOUR TROPHY. Instead of being able to suck it up and take it like a champion, they will learn to cry over their losses because now they are wondering what they did wrong; because in their minds they think “well, even when I did bad and goofed off and didn't do what I was supposed to I still received a trophy”. Is that really how we want to teach our children? Losing is a part of life it exists because we LEARN from it, and BETTER ourselves. We work harder and try to figure out what we didn't do right and what we could do right to prevent it from happening in the future. IT’S CALLED LEARNING. Do we want our children to be LAZY and incompetent to completing tasks the RIGHT WAY? Do we really not want our kids to take anything seriously? You may not want to believe it, but it all starts with harmless sports. It starts as soon as you’re born. Life is full of disappointment, you just have to learn how to deal with it and make it better.
Debate: Should all children recieve a trophy or medal in sporting events despite losing?
Side: NO, Life Lesson

Why would they?A medal is earned.If they lose, they didn't earn a medal.Losing is a part of life, and they should be taught to deal with life early on.
Debate: Should all children recieve a trophy or medal in sporting events despite losing?
Side: NO, Life Lesson

Medals should only be awarded if they have put a lot of effort into the sporting event. If you gave everyone medals it would be a waste of resources, also giving medals would most likely encourage laziness as the children will not need to put so much effort into it.
Debate: Should all children recieve a trophy or medal in sporting events despite losing?
Side: NO, Life Lesson

No it is not right because the losers must be reminded that losing comes with a price in the real world
Debate: Should all children recieve a trophy or medal in sporting events despite losing?
Side: NO, Life Lesson

Children need to be taught that in the real world there will be times when they will succeed and there will be times win they will fail. It is very important to teach them through competition, sports and play how to win and lose gracefully, how to hold their head high with pride even if they lose, not to gloat or rub their winnings in another's face, how to be great team mates through good sportsmanship, how to pick themselves up and try again until they get it right, the great feeling that if they don't get it right than it was not from lack of trying or from giving up, and to always be mindful that there must be a balance maintained between always winning and always losing. If kids get participation medals then everyone wins all of the time so they do not learn that anything worth having is worth working hard to obtain and they grow up to be spoiled little brats that thinks the world owes them something! They will also get frustrated because they can't always win anymore like they did when they were young, start thinking that there is something wrong with them and they will give up on everything that they can not be number one at because always winning as a child will give them a distorted view of what the real world is supposed to be like then when they grow up and see that they are the different ones in adulthood they will not have the tools to cope with that and that is the biggest set up for failure of all! This is much crueler than letting them get their little hearts broken from time to time and having them experience a little damage to their pride. In fact the adults insisting on all kids getting something just for participating are selfish! They are only thinking about themselves having hurt feelings because they have to watch their kids have these life lessons but as adults we have to teach our children that life is not fair so for you self indulging adults who are creating ruthless little brats and releasing them on everyone else in the world who live life by life's rules suck it up and grow up! LIFE IS NOT FAIR!!!!
Debate: Should all children recieve a trophy or medal in sporting events despite losing?
Side: NO, Life Lesson

no, sure it builds confidence so maybe when they are little but when they hit like 2nd-3rd grade no. i think one of the biggest issues with kids these days is that they think they can get whatever they want because they are children. I mean you teach a kid to say please, so now every time they want something all they got to do is say please. i mean it is a hard lesson to teach, but i think that if all their lives they think that even if they fail they still get the reward its not going to teach them what is real. im not saying be brutal and ruthless but teaching them that you cant get everything you want and you're not always going to win, is somthing everyone should know. other wise it is going to be a cold burst of reality when they get into the real world
Debate: Should all children recieve a trophy or medal in sporting events despite losing?
Side: NO, Life Lesson

If kids are taught that losers are winners, then they will be losers in thier lives.
Debate: Should all children recieve a trophy or medal in sporting events despite losing?
Side: NO, Life Lesson

very true. Kids shouldn't be spoiled that much. Spoiled kids never have a successful life.
Debate: Should all children recieve a trophy or medal in sporting events despite losing?
Side: NO, Life Lesson

This boy he keeps on winning so much trophies and medals that he ran out of space, then later in his life he kept on showing up on work and he kept on complaining to his boss that he did not get more money because he kept on showing up on work, then some day his boss got tired of it that he fired him, then later on he was a hobo. He kept on complaining on how life was not fair. LIFE LESSON: do not be whining about anything that would make a bad picture to you and your parents people will think that your parents spoil you or that you are not disciplined too much.
Debate: Should all children recieve a trophy or medal in sporting events despite losing?
Side: NO, Life Lesson

What happens if kids do not participate but comes to the sport.
Debate: Should all children recieve a trophy or medal in sporting events despite losing?
Side: NO, Life Lesson

failure leads to success ... after losing they should understand why they didn't get a medal or a trophy..so that they can work even more harder next time they play
Debate: Should all children recieve a trophy or medal in sporting events despite losing?
Side: NO, Life Lesson

Kids could actually find something else to do if they do not get a trophy and they might get a trophy there for example: a kid sucks in soccer then he finds a basketball tournament and wins a trophy.
Debate: Should all children recieve a trophy or medal in sporting events despite losing?
Side: NO, Life Lesson

It makes them covet it might please you but i disappoints God. You are listening to the devil.
Debate: Should all children recieve a trophy or medal in sporting events despite losing?
Side: NO, Life Lesson

Kids can run out of space in their closet or bookshelf or something to put their trophies
Debate: Should all children recieve a trophy or medal in sporting events despite losing?
Side: NO, Life Lesson

By giving children trophies just for participation, kids will think it is fine just to show up and be good, but not try. The actual winners will be unhappy, because they will not be the only ones with trophies and medals. This will make them not work as hard, because they will not be the only ones to get trophies. Also, the kids who don't win will not work as hard, because they know they will get a medal anyways.
Debate: Should all children recieve a trophy or medal in sporting events despite losing?
Side: NO, Life Lesson

All winners deserves compliments and rewards, but NOT all losers receives a loosing moments, some also receives a gratitude of compliments as they accept how they loose, that's is how sportsmanship should be, somehow, when you loose you become a winner of knowing things to be good in the future. It should not be a lessons learned because you made mistake resulted you to not win the game, but instead, it must be a ways of improvement that sometimes you need to know several things in order for you to master every obstacles. Like a physics games at http://www.iphysicsgames.com/, you always need to think and focus on every games, as it is also they way of how you perform your real life living.
Debate: Should all children recieve a trophy or medal in sporting events despite losing?
Side: NO, Life Lesson

all children as well as youngsters deserve rewards if they play best.trophy or medal gain their confidence.and they play better in next game.
Debate: Should all children recieve a trophy or medal in sporting events despite losing?
Side: NO, Life Lesson

when they show their trophy to their parents they feel proud on them.so i think it is compulsory to give rewards.
Debate: Should all children recieve a trophy or medal in sporting events despite losing?
Side: NO, Life Lesson

Very informative post.What is a trophy? A trophy is a token of victory - a symbolic representation of success, if you will.Thanks
Debate: Should all children recieve a trophy or medal in sporting events despite losing?
Side: NO, Life Lesson

No, if you don't give them a metal it will push them to be better
Debate: Should all children recieve a trophy or medal in sporting events despite losing?
Side: NO, Life Lesson

Trophies and medals for winners, losers can lick their wounds and come back to fight another day.
Debate: Should Americans have bought into Manifest Destiny?
Side: Yes

Manifest Destiny was the justification for an expansionist agenda, which sought to grow predominantly English (and later "American") influence across a broad expanse of territory perceived to be easily secured against pre-existing claimants. It was one group of persons acting in the name of a nation to secure the interests and prosperity of that group and nation; it was an agenda that functioned well towards the functional ends of the existence of the nation-state. The main arguments against Manifest Destiny are that it legitimated human rights abuses, and that it is narcissisticly deluded. With respect to the human rights abuses, many of these were not actually done in the name of Manifest Destiny nor would the concept of Manifest Destiny alone be adequate basis from which to arrive a the more severe abuses. Even were Manifest Destiny solely or primarily culpable, that alone is not adequate basis from which to claim it should have been abandoned; one would need to demonstrate that the conception of human rights (developed long after the idea of Manifest Destiny) should/does actually trump the actuality of the function of the nation. With respect to narcissistic delusions... most socially constructed narratives designed to serve a particular interest are; arguably, though, they are still functional and evolutionarily speaking that is what matters.
Debate: Should Americans have bought into Manifest Destiny?
Side: Yes

The Manifest Destiny was a great thing. It made the United States the dominate country it is today. Going from sea to sea unites the country and makes it much more manageable. It prevents going to war again with someone like Mexico over disputed lands.
Debate: Should Americans have bought into Manifest Destiny?
Side: No

The Manifest Destiny belief was just an excuse for causing the war. They used religion as an excuse for stealing land and causing a war.
Debate: Should Americans have bought into Manifest Destiny?
Side: No

During Manifest Destiny we did not just take land, we either fought for it or we bought it. The wars we encountered during this time we didn't start. Mexico started the Mexican-American war with us, and we avoided a war with Great Britain by compromising.
Debate: Should Americans have bought into Manifest Destiny?
Side: Yes

But if we didn't send those troops to stand on the "border" then the Mexican-American war probably would never have started.
Debate: Should Americans have bought into Manifest Destiny?
Side: Yes

we did not steal land we won it in war and we payed for some of it in war we payed for it with the life of our men
Debate: Should Americans have bought into Manifest Destiny?
Side: No

Yes but if we hadn't had felt the need to be greedy and acquire all that land, our men wouldn't have had to go to war and they wouldn't have died.
Debate: Should Americans have bought into Manifest Destiny?
Side: Yes

It was not the only reason the mexican-american war was fought. It was also because of a dispute between mexican and american troops on american soil.
Debate: Should Americans have bought into Manifest Destiny?
Side: Yes

The United States didn't steal land, we either bought it or compromised.
Debate: Should Americans have bought into Manifest Destiny?
Side: No

If we didn't feel the need to expand, we wouldn't have even gotten into a dispute with Mexico to begin with.
Debate: Should Americans have bought into Manifest Destiny?
Side: Yes

I agree, Manifest Destiny helped to ensure a large amount of land that we could farm, trade, improve, and safely live on without having possible issues with other countries.
Debate: Should Americans have bought into Manifest Destiny?
Side: No

But getting the land made us have issues with other countries and a war with Mexico!
Debate: Should Americans have bought into Manifest Destiny?
Side: Yes

I believe Manifest Destiny was good for Americans because we gained a lot of land.
Debate: Should Americans have bought into Manifest Destiny?
Side: Yes

Gaining land was good for us because we could worry less about invasions from countries with territories around us.
Debate: Should Americans have bought into Manifest Destiny?
Side: No

Gaining land wasn't something that we needed to worry about considering all of the stuff we went through and the conflicts we started just to get new land.
Debate: Should Americans have bought into Manifest Destiny?
Side: Yes

It ended well for us. We was able to expand and have more land to work with.
Debate: Should Americans have bought into Manifest Destiny?
Side: No

But we still had to pay for the land and had to fight a war
Debate: Should Americans have bought into Manifest Destiny?
Side: Yes

With the newly acquired land, more Americans were able to have jobs and more land.
Debate: Should Americans have bought into Manifest Destiny?
Side: No

But we had to pay for the land and we fought a war and almost started a war with the 50-54 or fight with britain
Debate: Should Americans have bought into Manifest Destiny?
Side: Yes

We didn't almost get in a war with Britain over land. We compromised with them.