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http://www.somethingawful.com/news/participation-award-crisis/ The article's accurate satire of reactionary attitudes notwithstanding, I still feel that participation awards devalue the accomplishments of those who actually earned their praise.
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It's unfortunate that there may well be a lot of people out there still not familiar with the "Baby Merchant" song from Cop Rock.
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Aug 20, 2015 18:46
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I dunno, maybe I was an unusually perceptive kid, but I figured out pretty well on my own that participation awards were bullshit.
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Aug 21, 2015 02:29
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Senior Woodchuck posted:I dunno, maybe I was an unusually perceptive kid, but I figured out pretty well on my own that participation awards were bullshit. Whaddya want a medal?
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Aug 21, 2015 16:03
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I am on board with participation awards as long as they are far shittier than the actual awards and definitely not so that every kid gets a prize. Say 1st 2nd 3rd place gets a neat trophy or a medals or some poo poo. And the participants (losers) get that lovely ubiquitous ribbon if for no other reason than to commemorate the event. But without a ceremony or anything.
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Sep 10, 2015 15:11
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the only participation award I like is for running races...for everything else? as people say, only if the award is rubbish when compared to the actual winners.
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12gaugelobotomy posted:I am on board with participation awards as long as they are far shittier than the actual awards and definitely not so that every kid gets a prize. i think a vial of feces on a string would be a good halfway point here
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Sep 12, 2015 23:41
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Senior Woodchuck posted:I dunno, maybe I was an unusually perceptive kid, but I figured out pretty well on my own that participation awards were bullshit. My first participation award was for the school science fair. I did not think I had the choice to not participate, so I was just very puzzled by the award.
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Applewhite posted:http://www.somethingawful.com/news/participation-award-crisis/ look at this scrub who thinks America is a meritocracy
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who cares? even without participation awards, your kid is still gonna be an entitled little poo poo.
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Oct 5, 2015 12:00
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Participation awards always made me feel like they were mocking my failure. I also figured out that because many people are emotionally fragile you can beat someone who is a little bit better than you at something by tearing them down psychologically.
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Senior Woodchuck posted:I dunno, maybe I was an unusually perceptive kid, but I figured out pretty well on my own that participation awards were bullshit. They really don't mean poo poo and I remember getting a few from sports teams and I don't think I looked at them again until I moved, if you're against them it should be for reducing the amount of bullshit plastic we import from China by about a jillion tons, not for some psychological reason because any kid who felt sincere joy from having a losing season and then being given a chunk of plastic is literally retarded. I have zero trophies, not even a ball from college sports and just having my uniform and the memories feels a hundred times better than losing a lot as a kid and being given a trophy.
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Oct 23, 2015 19:28
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I got a blue ribbon in tree burning.
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Nov 11, 2015 11:28
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one time as a kid they forgot to give me even a participation reward and it seriously bothered me for like a month
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Nov 20, 2015 15:38
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Do you have to be a member of the AARP to complain about participation trophies?
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Nov 28, 2015 03:29
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I won a gameboy for drawin a pumpkin when I was like ten but it was the best pumpkin drawing. But it was on accident I hosed up the eyes and they ended up looking like this just on accident, what I like it about it is that some parent looked at it surely and thought I had had an assist to cheat myself up a gameboy but the truth is it was just irreproduceable luck, gently caress you
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I got a participation award for submitting an experiment to the school science fair and my dominant emotion was confusion. I didn't think I had the choice to not participate in the science fair, nobody even implied that I might opt out. So why was I getting honored for doing something I thought was mandatory? It would be like getting praised for wearing clothes when leaving the house. I certainly didn't feel honored or accomplished. Even then I knew participation awards were dumb.
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kids these days i tell you what
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My public security class acted as security for a Special Olympics event at a nearby college. Our teacher then afterwards proceeded to give everyone an award that stated "Congratulations for Participating in the Special Olympics". The same one the participants received. He hated all of us intensely.
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I can see Participation trophies for the wee little kids being nice, but I think participation trophies in the long term devalue success. It makes kids gain the mindset that they will be successful despite their level of effort.
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