I am not agreeing to go or anything at this point, but if I were to go...

I would be interested in finding a way to teach my high school kids beyond the basics. I have kids from 400 to 1300. I have a USCF rating of 1060 or so, but I can play up to 1400 relatively well. I can teach and work with the lower level kids easily enough - that becomes based on their willingness to learn. BUT, when they get to the point where they can beat me at least one out of five times or so, I begin to lose the ability to teach "new" stuff. It becomes more a situation in which we learn together, which works pretty well, or I just send them off with a book, which doesn't always work well. I don't know what exactly a class could entail for this situation other than telling me to get better so I can teach them... At least point, I often learn as much from the higher rateds as they do from me and though that is useful and helpful... it is not as effective as when I work with lower rated players.

 

That is my 2 cents anyway,

Brett Bothwell

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