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To: nmh

Exactly right! This is what happens when no one is allowed to keep score and everybody gets a trophy....


14 posted on 01/19/2007 10:49:26 AM PST by ButThreeLeftsDo (Carry Daily. Apply Sparingly.)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo
Exactly right! This is what happens when no one is allowed to keep score and everybody gets a trophy....

Too funny! I had a spirited discussion with my 7 year-old son the other day about why not everybody deserved a trophy. He thinks just trying should be enough. I told him that if just claiming to try was enough then there was no incentive to really give it your all. I couldn't get him to agree.

I would say that I need to get him out of the public school system, but the Christian school is the same way. The basketball team does not keep score and everybody gets a trophy. What's worse is that everybody gets an individual merit award after each game. It's terrible!

19 posted on 01/19/2007 10:53:45 AM PST by T.Smith
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