Rhody Trader

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I’ve had a rant building and it’s coming out now.

At what point did we start believing that everyone who participates should be given a trophy just for doing so? That it shouldn’t be about winning and losing? That we shouldn’t keep score?

I know it was some time after I was a kid, that’s for sure. That definitely seems to be the theme in youth sports these days, though. And it’s ruining the upcoming generations.

I started hearing from a professor friend a while back about how the students in class had started to change. He was starting to see a sense of entitlement creaping in progressively. We’re talking a small state school here, not some Ivy League institution where rich kids expect everything handed to him (as the stereotype would suggest - having worked at one I can say that’s not really true). These are “normal” kids from middle class families who are expecting everything to be done for them and presented on a platter.

Blame it on those youth programs where every kid gets a trophy just for turning up.

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