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By the time kids are in second grade, it is time to start learning and accepting that you can be good at something but not necessarily the best, and that not everyone gets an award every time. If these were K students, I would agree it was inappropriate, but 2nd grade is old enough to accept this. My 1st grade DS was completely distraught because another kid got MVP on coach pitch this year, and frankly, I was really irritated with him about it, because the other kid deserved it and it wasn't a reflection on DS.

Did you know that when kids are asked to be creative, they do amazing things? And when they're told the most creative project gets a prize, their stuff turns out to be much less creative?

It's so interesting how that works. 
 
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So then I am assuming you are opposed to Noble Prizes, Mann-Booker awards etc. as well?  Because those scientists and authors are probably not being as creative and smart as they would have been absent those achievement awards, right?[/quote]

No, I'm not opposed to those rewards and awards for adults.  But I do know that sometimes scientists at big research institutions can be class-A azzholes who hoard or steal data and research for themselves and are royal sh!ts to their grad students and post-docs because being recognized and awarded is key to their professional success.  It's the scientists who remain mostly aloof to that kind of reward system who are the best to work with.[/quote]

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