Why Should Youth Athletes Be Paid?

How do you think a youth athlete would feel when they are awarded with something everyone else got? According to the "Trophies for all" policy, youth athletes are being awarded with participation awards. Participation awards are becoming more commonplace today. Particularly throughout youth athletes. There is no participation award for life.

Should all athletes receive a participation trophy? According to "Trophies For All," athletes are being rewarded with participation trophies. Participation trophies do not give kids the right idea about earning things in the real world. They are also not the best use of ball club's limited amount of money. Additionally, trophies can start to lose their meaning.

In life kids, students, and adults receive awards also trophies for their success in life. When growing up as a child kids will receive participation trophies. Receiving a participation trophy speaks a lot of volume. When getting a participation trophy this means the kid does not have to improve, kids get trophies like candy, and what can people do to change these situation. Giving kids participation trophies is not all good, sometime when doing the best people may fail in today's world.

Imagine practising or a sport every hour of the day weather its batting in a cage shooting baskets or rehearsing a ane routine. You put every ounce of energy you have in to what you do. When the day comes for awards to be handed out you get the same reward that the kid who never practised or even tried. All they did was show up and sit on the bench and they get the same recognition as you. How does this make you feel mad maybe infuriated.

You walk into an eight year old’s room, which belongs to a kid name James, and you see trophies stacked in his room everywhere, almost as much as the amount of people there are on the earth. What surprises you is the labels or the purpose of those trophies, like a trophy for “Participation” and a trophy for “Playing a game”, and even a trophy for just Showing up. Realizing that the amount of trophies he has is outweighting his ability in that sport he is in, you realize that the kid is getting so many trophies that are unnecessary and invaluable in terms of the purpose of that trophy or why he got it. Trophies should not be given to everyone involved in that sport because if everyone gets a trophy, they have no value. Also, Sports organizations

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Should a person get paid just for showing up for there a job and not actually doing anything? Should they also get paid the same amount even if another co-worker is better at their job? Just because someone shows up and participates, doesn’t not mean they deserve the same treatment as everyone else. Some parents and athletes believe equal playing time for all sports and activities is deserved all through their middle school and high school careers. However, earning your position, being undeserving of playing time, and coaches trying to win in their respected program are all issues that need to be thought of before people begin fighting for equal playing time.

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My soccer team’s season just ended. We won our game 6-1 and I scored 5 of them. I got handed a trophy, everyone else who really tried got one too . Then, they handed one to Timmy. Timmy showed up to three practices and stinks.

The use of participation trophies in the past couple years has proved to not be beneficial for the children receiving the trophy. Instead this trophy has raised kids into thinking that losing is okay. This in result has made it so kids do not try as hard or put forth as much effort, which is why we have been dropping every year in the global rank in education. Participation trophies have been used for years to try and encourage participation in sports.

Let’s say hypothetically that you just finished an entire footrace you participated in at your high school. You felt the burn, you’re all out of breath, you tried really hard and you’re exhausted. Yet, your hard work paid off because you made it in first. Well, not really. This other kid went really slow, slower than a snail’s grandmother, and he gets as much praise as you.

Should everyone get a trophy? According to the "trophies for all" policy youth athletes are being awarded with participation trophies. Youth athletes need to know there is no participation award for life. In addition the more trophies coaches give out the less meaning they have. Also, it is a hard lesson to learn but youth athletes need to learn to take a lose.