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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am shocked by this thread.  How are you people going to teach your children to navigate the world?  Kids need to learn that it's important to work hard, that the kids who win awards are not necessarily smarter than them, but may be working harder, and that even if they try their best, they may still not win.  This is LIFE, and elementary age children are more than capable of handling it.[/quote]

so kids need to learn to try harder and they need to learn that no matter how hard they try they just aren't good enough?  Fine if that is in one thing that is about on thing in their lives, but school is their whole life right now.  So lets' say you have a job and aren't winning the awards there - promotions career advancement.  The lesson is to try harder right?  Ok. so you try your hardest and you still aren't able to advance (can't make partner or get tenure).  Well, you find a new job that better fits your talents and proclivities and you advance at that one.  Life lesson here is to move on.  But kids can't move on (till maybe they can choose the votech path in high school) and we don't want them to move on.  Wewant them, to learn.  So do these awards help students learn?  no.

School is not sports.  It is about learning.  [/quote]

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