Why isn't chess more popular?

See what I mean...

Here listen for the big brass gong in the middle of this song...it is actually well placed...

nice pic, gd

i have noticed that a lot of kids (elementary) know how to play chess just dont because they perfer sports. they say they learned from older brothers and sisters

Hey! My Dad is long gone and I try like hell!

... because unfortunately we live in a world with a lot of ignorant and low intellect humans...

You gotta be kidding...

All I can say is, I felt like putting the Flow Channel on that chart to some good use.

I generally suffered more from the reverse problem.

Look on the bright side:  such a backdrop enables geniuses like you to shine out like diamonds.

I definitely had a few patronizing teachers. I'd give it right back and go to the principal's office if necessary. I didn't care. As for boring students, they didn't bother me very much, I generally didn't have to pay attention to them.

Then you'd really love me (I left at 15).

I was actually expelled both of my senior years. I opted not to go back. I could've passed the GED test before my freshman year. It actually angers me that, as much of my time was wasted, as it was those 4 years. I could have been working toward a certification in a skill trade or atleast working for more important pursuits.

I found the whole business quite preposterous.  It was like a 4-year-long coma (only I made it 2).

I got my GED in Job Corps.

One of my favorite parts was when they dictated to you what you were going to learn for 4 years for the most part, to get this, prepare you for having to completely decide what you wanted to do there after. I think they should change the public education system to help people figure out what they want to learn at a much younger age. If someone figures out their dream of being an astronaut in 3rd grade isn't for them by the end of 4th grade, good, thats better than wasting $100,000 and having to start over.

If you cram Romeo and Juliet down my throat, I likely won't even remember anything about it, except that I don't like it or care. Unfortunately those things won't get you "A's" on tests and quizes.

I think if they did what I proposed, not only would participation and grades increase for the better, you would see more productive members of society produced because, the individual is nutured instead of neutered or spayed.

It is sad that unless people conform to the system, instead of their human nature, they are penalized for it. Honestly, I think I could have avoided going to a public school altogether and I would have been fine. I believe I would know everything that I do today in terms of what I learned while I was there, not counting things about the other students, teachers, etc.

I was homeschooled 7th through 12th My parents had an extremely laissez faire approach. I picked out my own school books, studied what I felt like studying and ignored the rest. Can't remember them ever grading anything or checking to see how or what I was studying.

I like charts.

That thing was definitely a winner of the "saying something obvious and making it sound like science" award.

I thought home schooled people had to somehow prove that they had learned the required subjects. Tests or whatever.

^Ask at your next interview.

Not where I lived.