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North Carolina lawmakers introduce bill to ban participation trophies for kids
Three North Carolina lawmakers introduced a bill that would only allow awards given to children to be based on identified performance achievements.
North Carolina lawmakers introduce bill to ban participation trophies for kids
North Carolina lawmakers introduced a bill to ban giving children participation trophies for youth sports activities.
The three Republican state representatives — Sens. Tim Moffitt, Eddie Settle, and Bobby Hanig — introduced the bill, called Eliminate Participation Trophies, to the state senate on March 30.
The bill says that any award given to children for youth recreation activities must be based on identified performance achievements.
"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," according to the proposed one-page bill.
Now, whether you agree with participation trophies or not, I think we could all agree it is not something the government needs to be sticking its nose in to.