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Do you find yourself competitive? Perhaps you play a competitive sport or participate on an academic team. Maybe you just fight with your siblings over irrational items. Even though it can cause stress, competition is essential is schools because it advances grades by setting a bar and raising it frequently, forming bonds with peers, and preparing students for the future.
To begin with, students set bars and raise them frequently when they break a barrier. With this harsh competition, students are always striving to become better than their classmates. For example, if a student makes the highest grade in the class at a 94 but another student might wish to be better. He or she could get a higher grade and raise the highest grade to, say,

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