The Participation Trophy Epidemic — Ethan Cromer
Your kid sucks at soccer. Your kid’s team sucks at soccer and your kid’s coach sucks at coaching soccer. Despite this, your kid will receive the same reward as little Lionel Messi and his team who beat everyone 16–0. The idea of participation trophies, where everyone receives the same award and the same amount of recognition because “they’re trying”, is corrupting America’s youth. Participation trophies teach children that they don’t have to try hard for recognition. They are taught that they deserve to win, regardless of skill and effort.
What’s the point of putting in the effort of scoring 16 goals if you don’t get a trophy that says “Champion”? Why should you practice at the best of your ability if there’s no winner or loser? This generation of already lazy children has been made even lazier due to the regressive left and their political correctness corrupting even children’s sports. This generation of children has grown up and is now attending college, which they’re demanding be free, so that everyone can “win” and have a college education.
These college students are entitled arrogant brats who demand that they are given the same reward as everyone else. Whether this “reward” is a free college education, or a 15 dollar an hour minimum wage, they demand that they are treated equal to everyone else and given the same recognition, without working for or earning any of it. These ridiculously misinformed students will struggle once they graduate from college and find that at a real job, which they are less likely to find with their feminist therapeutical scuba diving degrees, you actually have to work to earn your position and valor. The strides that these self-righteous social justice warriors make to create a society where everyone is equal (except for the straight, white, cis male) is eerily similar to a Harrison Bergeron-style dystopia. So for this, parents, I urge you, THROW AWAY YOUR CHILD’S PARTICIPATION TROPHY. Sit your child down and tell them “Hey, you’re trash at soccer. Don’t quit your day job.” and help your kid survive in the real world.
