In today's society, every kid that plays a sport gets a trophy for just showing up and that is not right. There is more meaning behind a trophy for a kid than what most people think. Getting a first place trophy is a better feeling than getting a participation trophy. Kids should be able to go home and celebrate their first place trophies and realize they accomplished something rather than getting a participation trophy for just being out there.
In the passage ‘’Participation Trophies Send a Dangerous Message’’ Betty Berdan has some very good points. In the first paragraph, Betty says she got a lot of participation trophies when she was younger and she says she sits them in a corner and they collect dust and they don't mean much to her.
In the passage ‘’Participation Trophies Send a Dangerous Message’’ Betty Berdan has some very good points. In the first paragraph, Betty says she got a lot of participation trophies when she was younger and she says she sits them in a corner and they collect dust and they don't mean much to her.