Thanks & don't give up,keep on chessing!
School wont allow chess club, help.
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I'll bet they have time for creationism though. The scourge of middle America and the lower states.
The problem with chess from the Establishment point of view is that it teaches critical thinking...
Feb 4, 2018
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#25
If you have a public library nearby you could talk to the librarian about starting a chess club in the library.
Deane_schure, I found a book that will help you convince the folk at your school why a chess club is necessary....download it here....https://www.sendspace.com/file/8xkblg It’s a pdf book entitled “Benefits of incorporating chess in school curriculum
52yrral wrote:
Please keep us updated on the situation.
so the school has given us a final answer of no, again due to it being curriculum only, so me and my friends have decided to join the greenville, and greer chess clubs(both nearby our homes). I guess ill take what I can get.
Sounds like a good alternative.Best of all in your future endeavors, & keep on chessing!
Looking forward to your progress reports.
Feb 11, 2018
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#30
What you guys have to realise is that the main purpose of school is to make people stupid. Don't believe me? The evidence is blatantly obvious, just look at the Daily Puzzle forum, the first page fanatics can not put a proper sentence together. I would ask anybody to tell me some things that they learnt in school that are useful in ordinary everyday life. Am I writing as somebody who failed miserably in school? I have a chemistry PhD so I suppose not. Of course school is not going to encourage chess, chess develops critical thinking. What government in its right mind would want a population who could THINK? The school system is designed to produce morons, just look at your TV, people actually buy TV sets and watch the nonsense.
Sounds like you had a bitter experience,& yet you have achieved a PhD.Self taught?
Sue, claiming racism due to the fact that banning chess disenfranchises Indian and Middle Eastern persons.
Is there a Boys & Girls Club in your area?
Deane; If I may ask, is that a Catholic School.......public school......magnet school..?? Touche to Chseoc who noticed that the puzzle page is full of members who can't put a sentence together.
LOL. sad, but true.
Step #1 Tell them that if they dont let you put the chess club in the school you will leave that school forever
Step#2 Search other school.
deane_schure wrote:
52yrral wrote:
Please keep us updated on the situation.
so the school has given us a final answer of no, again due to it being curriculum only, so me and my friends have decided to join the greenville, and greer chess clubs(both nearby our homes). I guess ill take what I can get.
https://www.chess.com/blog/beth_thrasher/saving-lives-in-mississippi-birth-of-the-wingfield-chess-team
She may have some sound advice to your question.
Don't lose heart...
Feb 12, 2018
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#37
The 'Curriculum', of course is a fascist instrument. It is to control what is taught. That is why the first page "geniuses" can not write a sentence. The bottom line is that a government simply does not want a population with critical analytical minds. The interesting little test to do would be to see if the schools that effectively ban chess also ban the teaching, or discussion, of Darwin's theory of Evolution.
#31 14 hrs ago
Sounds like you had a bitter experience,& yet you have achieved a PhD.Self taught?
PhD is a research degree, all the research has to be one's own original research with data to substantiate it. Also 25 years postdoctoral research with publications in peer reviewed front line journals. Even J.A.C.S., probably World's number one. The front pagers can google it, assuming they can read.
No, I did not have a bitter expirience, I was in a high school and then universities, not Khe Sanh or Dresden. I actually enjoyed school and loved the research. But my lifetime experience of the education system has made me realise that the last thing it is concerned with is education. Control, yes, manipulation, yes, freedom of thought NO. My daughter has a MSc (mathematics) and MSc (statistics) so she had a good education, she actually went to a Welsh school (note my flag?).
It is my grandaughters I worry about, school, as it is now will be a barren intellectual desert for them.
I have to thank 52yrall for reading my post and actually responding to it.
RonaldJosephCote wrote:
Deane; If I may ask, is that a Catholic School.......public school......magnet school..?? Touche to Chseoc who noticed that the puzzle page is full of members who can't put a sentence together. LOL. sad, but true.
All it is a public high school, paid by tax money and such. The real dislike of chess surprises me, it teaches so many things from time management to forward thinking, even to math in some regards.
deane_schure wrote:
My school doesn’t allow a chess club because it is not “curriculum based” even though we have a bit of good players who are serious about it. Also I am a part of the academic team and that is not tied into a curriculum, any ideas on reasons I could bring up, or ways around it ?
I would suggest going to your town`s Recreation Department and seeing if they could give you a building to use in the early evening. After that (hopefully), get to be an affiliate of the USCF and in this way you might be able to not only attract other players but to also run rated tournaments. Let me know how it goes. Most of the serious suggestions from the others are good as well.
Please keep us updated on the situation.
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