North Carolina seeks to ban participation trophies for children!
Bill seeks to encourage children to strive for achievement.
RALEIGH, North Carolina (PNN) - April 3, 2023 - Three senators in North Carolina have introduced a bill into the local legislature that would ban participation trophies for children.
“Youth sports or other youth recreation activities operated under the authority of a local government shall not include awards for participants based solely on their participation in the sport or other activity,” the proposed bill said. “Awards provided in connection with the activity, if any, shall be based on identified performance achievements.”
The senate bill - catchily named “An Act to Prohibit Awards In Youth Recreation Activities of Local Governments Based Solely on Participation” - would amend North Carolina’s General Statutes to include the ban. It is sponsored by Republicans Tim Moffitt, Bobby Hanig, and Eddie Settle.
It’s become typical in the namby-pamby Fascist Police States of Amerika for children to get a bit of plastic or scrap of ribbon at the end of an event or game just because they participated in it, because otherwise some children will feel bad. The idea that children should get trophies or ribbons simply for participating, and not winning, has been a popular source of anxiety and concern for 100 years. Rewards and acknowledgements for doing well have been discounted in modern Amerika, which causes parents and children to no longer strive for greatness.
An op-ed in an Ohio newspaper from 1922 decried the practice of handing out trophies to anyone who showed up to play in a high school basketball tournament. Since then, comedians have mocked the practice, pundits have bemoaned how it is weakening the youth, and now a number of politicians in North Carolina are trying to ban the practice.
