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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I just think kids don't learn how to lose anymore. Losing gracefully is a very important skill. In life you're rarely going to be #1 and that's okay. I think participation trophies take away the intrinsic knowledge that you tried something, it was fun and that that is enough. [/quote]

OP here. I agree that kids need to learn how to lose. I just don't agree that participation trophies is the problem. Kids aren't idiots. They see that everyone got a trophy so they know they weren't the winner. [b]I have a bigger issue with the fact that my kids got all the way through ES without ever racing their classmates. [/b]When dd was trying to decide whether or not to take track in MS, i found out that she had no idea if she was among the fastest or slowest in her ES class. I took track in MS because I knew that I was one of the fastest, so that was a talent I wanted to pursue. When we don't let kids compete, we don't let them discover their natural talents.[/quote]

What was your child doing during recess?[/quote]

Kind of hard to race in a sea of tire chips. Don't even get me started on that.

But even if she had the opportunity to race at recess, i don't even think it would have ever occurred to her or her friends to do so. Racing their peers to see who is fastest just isn't a concept they are familiar with.

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If it was important to you that your kid have experience running races, why didn't you set them up in your backyard, or sign her up for track, or in some way take responsibility for her learning this?  Blaming the school for the fact that your kid didn't figure out that some people run races is a little bizarre.

I'm guessing that the fastest kids in your kid's class know that they're the fastest.  They don't need races in PE to figure it out.  They know who gets to the ball quickest in soccer, and who looks like the wind when they run down the sidewalk at the end of the day.  [/quote]

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