Trophies Are for Winners Envision yourself running down a field to make the winning shot. Making this goal will secure a spot for your team in the championship. Five feet away from the goal, you kick the ball with everything you’ve got, and you miss. The team can’t move on in the tournament, but you still get a trophy. In todays world, kids don’t have to try, they just need to show up. Children shouldn’t get awarded for doing what they are supposed to do. If everyone gets a trophy, they have no value. Also, trophies are very expensive. Lastly, trophies send the wrong message. If everyone gets a trophy, they will have no value. To begin with, Dr. Michelle Anthony, an author and phychologist who works with kids and schools, says “...trohpies can lose their meaning when everyone gets one.” If everybody on a team gets a trophy, the kids who really deserve it feel like it’s not special and as if the award has no meaning. Also, in “Should Everyone Get a Trophy?” 12 year old Lucas says “...he didn’t exactly earn these trophies for his athletic prowess.” Lucas recives trophies even though he isn’t very good, therefore the awards have no value since everyone gets one. …show more content…
In “Losing Is Good for You” it states, “It adds up: trophy and award sales are now an estimated $3 billion-a-year industry in the United States and Canada!” Imagine spending that much money just for an award some kid is going to place upon their shelf to sit among dozens of other worthless participation trophies. To go along with that, in the same article it says, “Nationally, A.Y.S.O. local branches typically spend as much as 12 percent of their yearly budgets on trophies.” That money could’ve been used for new equiptment, renovation, and many other things. But one spends it on a child who doesn’t deserve it? Money is a valuable thing that should not be wasted on who knows how many