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Participation Backwards: Ruining Kids And Youth Sports

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Do you get all A’s in school just for showing up? Do you make the team just for trying out? Well for the past couple of weeks social media has been blowing up with the debate on participation trophies. I feel that participation trophies and ruining kids and youth sports. There are many reasons why the dreadful participation trophy is ruining sports. For instance, if sports leagues got rid of participation trophies they could save money and buy better safety equipment. According to an article in the New York Times, an Oklahoma Little league had to drop participation trophies because of budget problems. Did you know that three billion dollars are spent on participation trophies each year! If we stopped wasting our money on these pointless

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