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Last week my youngest child’s school held a kindergarten graduation which we couldn’t I attend.Later I learned that awards were given to the five and six-year-old that day.More than a third of the small class received awards for things like “academic achievement”,“critical thinking” and “citizenship”.In those six-year-old minds, not getting an award correlated with “not being good”, “not being smart” and “not trying hard enough”.
Then the realization struck me.My kid—not the receiver of an award—had made us all family awards the evening before.My husband and I were awarded“fist place”, one sibling “second place” and the other “third place”. You can join the dots on which sibling they fight most with.My child was also drawing the same straight line to awards being equated with a person’s value,whether it was him or the teacher giving them out.I felt extremely sad that the awards had impacted my child’s self-worth which I hadn’t noticed.
It turns out I’m onto something.I approached Dr Louise Porter,a Brisbane child psychologist,to comment on these observations and whether our kids’ well-being is compromised by awards. “These ‘ceremonies of humiliation’ are awful at any age,but worse in primary school,” she said.“They teach children that those who happen to be academic are ‘better than’ others,which not only harms individuals’ self esteem but also creates a hierarchy within the classroom,within which bullying of the devalued is more possible.”
I don’t accept that this is necessary for our very youngest school students.Children this young don’t need to be wise to the ways of the world.
In the words of Dr Porter,“Imposing a competitive climate on children is an ethical issue.Very few adults would persist at a game at which they constantly lost;yet we impose losing on some students every day of their school lives—and yet expect them to remain engaged and hopeful.”
Which of the following should be emphasized according to Dr Porter?
Academic achievement. B. Self esteem.
C. Social sophistication. D. Competitive climate.
32. Which of the following might be the best title of the passage?
A. Just let kids be free B. Just let kids be little
C. Awards make kids stupid D.Awards make kids competitive

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