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Is competition in school helpful or harmful to the students?
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| Helpful | 77% | 1807 votes | Total: 2346 votes | |
| Harmful | 23% | 539 votes |
Helpful
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Created on: February 08, 2011 Last Updated: February 09, 2011
It has become an annual tradition in America, one that deserves the same regal pomp and circumstance
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Created on: June 08, 2008
Competition in school isn't just helpful, it's vital. Life itself is competition for resources, food,
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Created on: March 24, 2008
Competition on school; can only be of benefit to students in today's world. It is a world in which an
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Created on: December 17, 2007 Last Updated: July 14, 2011
Discouraging competition among our young people is discouraging the very best that is America. Discouraging
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by Gary Watson
Created on: August 12, 2010 Last Updated: August 13, 2010
The most valuable thing of any society is healthy competition. Therefore encouraging it in children
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by Judetayo1
Created on: June 10, 2011 Last Updated: June 11, 2011
No matter how young a child is, he/she will one day grow to face life’s challenges. Life is full
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Created on: July 02, 2007 Last Updated: September 14, 2011
As human beings, we by nature thrive under competition, though some more than others. We are instinctively
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Created on: August 10, 2010 Last Updated: August 12, 2010
Competition is what drives us forward. The feeling of competiting and winning is attractive to everyone,
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Created on: March 18, 2008 Last Updated: July 30, 2008
Is Competition in School Helpful or Harmful to the Students?
Good healthy competition is the best way
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by Don Shields
Created on: August 21, 2009
America is a competitive society. Always has been, hopefully always will be. Keen competition keeps
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by Ben Hughes
Created on: April 04, 2008
It's a fact of life that life itself isn't easy. There will be plenty of hurdles to overcome, whether
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Created on: August 30, 2009 Last Updated: February 02, 2010
Where would any of us be if we went to schools where no competition was allowed? How would we know whether
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Created on: March 09, 2009
Competition if analysed as the rivalry with one's own self rather than opponents has very influential
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Created on: June 12, 2009 Last Updated: June 14, 2009
Competition is a healthy and fun way to measure a person's ability. The challenge can encourage a student
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Created on: April 14, 2009
Schools should be aiming to promote success in their classrooms and a good motivation for doing so is
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by R Shimoda
Created on: June 10, 2011
The debate on whether competition is harmful or helpful in schools has been around for years and unfortunately
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by Joe Owens
Created on: April 07, 2008 Last Updated: January 26, 2012
When did we get away from the idea that surivial of the fittest no longer works? Get a clue people,
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Created on: April 14, 2010
Competition is something that adult humans need to be able to cope with in a competent manner. To be
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by T3iffany
Created on: August 24, 2009 Last Updated: August 25, 2009
Competition in school is helpful to the students. Having competition makes learning fun, it gives the
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Created on: November 03, 2010
No matter where we turn or what we do, there is competition. It may be as simple as jumping a queue,
Harmful
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Created on: July 12, 2007
Since Alex Osborn of the advertising agency Batten, Barton, Durstine and Osborn came up with the idea
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Created on: June 11, 2007
Everything in a student's life is a competition. While experts may argue that this competitive atmosphere
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by Raven Lebeau
Created on: September 21, 2007
I wish I could write on both sides of this one. Competition is a tool in the teaching toolbox, and like
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Created on: March 04, 2008
Competition in schools today is harmful to young people and our society. Modern education pits students
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by K. Russell
Created on: September 03, 2007
Competition is a poor substitute for the academic and social challenges that students should be facing.
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by Helena Whyte
Created on: June 01, 2009
Competition in school is harmful to the students. As unglamorous as it sounds, the purpose of a public
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by Linda Paul
Created on: August 22, 2007
Would you repeatedly call your child a failure? Would you compare him or her to their siblings or your
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by J.C. Vogen
Created on: November 12, 2008 Last Updated: March 23, 2011
What does it mean to place the act of competition into an educational setting? Are students competing
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Created on: June 25, 2007
The Public School System: Engendering the Need to Compete and to Beat in America's Youth
American culture
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Created on: March 14, 2008
Children are not born competitive, they learn it. They do not, however, generally begin to compare themselves
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by Carrie Frank
Created on: March 03, 2008
You can argue that children need to learn to accept failure or that they are not the best at everything.
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by Joseph Wardy
Created on: February 10, 2010 Last Updated: February 11, 2010
The good old Western philosophy of competition serving as the backbone of a thriving capitalistic venture
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by Ryan Lester
Created on: March 17, 2008
The competitive spirit; a concept meant to bring out the best in us and our abilities. You often hear
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by E. R. S.
Created on: December 19, 2008
I have also belonged to the school of thought that education should be something that is rooted in self
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by Marilyn Robb
Created on: July 11, 2007
Ending the Culture of Competition.
Arden Frandsen (1976) wrote about competition: "Despite the tendency
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Created on: July 03, 2007 Last Updated: December 11, 2010
Getting up to go to school every morning becomes a struggle. Every home work assignment is an impossible
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by Amelia Love
Created on: July 05, 2007 Last Updated: June 16, 2008
I was a junior in a small high school at the end of the school year. I had nearly always been a cheerleader,
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Created on: March 21, 2008
Competition in high school is harmful; there must be a LOSER every time.
In today's world, we must be
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Created on: June 30, 2007
An academically competitive atmosphere is harmful to students. For the purpose of explanation, consider
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by Cory Taylor
Created on: June 06, 2007 Last Updated: June 09, 2007
Two friends in a math class are competing against each other for a better grade on the next exam. They
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