Poor quality teaching

I have long told people verbally about poor teachers and the effects they have upon individuals' growth.

I am hoping to put these ideas into writing here.

When I was 25, about 4 years ago I was nearly killed in a streetfight by three men. A leading south end drug dealer insulted my mother and I poked him in the face in a city centre sauna. He almost broke my jaw and then I got in a fight with three coke rats later.

I started playing chess as a way around this.

When I came to the chess club I obviously lost all the games but wasn't put off which surprised certain people. I kept on playing and people told me a great deal of nonsense about chess.

nonsense such as

"Studying openings isn't important"

"key squares"

"bishops are always better than knights"

I eventually got better due to studying the game.

in one game I lost to some woman who had a Cambridge university partly because I was tired prison visiting all day. I was expected to beat thus woman but didn't mind losing to her.

What did upset me was that she called me odd when I asked to photograph her score sheet and laughed about beating me.

This woman has made no attempt to learn chess and called a friend of mine with a learning difficulty and idiot. The guy with learning difficulties works whereas she got half her husband's house from a divorce (poor guy) and coasts along on state benefits

It sickens me that she is allowed to teach for a charity called "chess in schools".

She:

1 can't play chess to any standard and will hinder students growth into master level players by advising them that "openings aren't important" etc
2 has appalling attitudes towards men who pay her benefit money.
3 has appalling attitudes towards the game of chess as she happily takes the place of better players on teams despite not being able to play at all.

It disgusts me that this creature is allowed to teach chess to children for a charity.

on a similar note the "education" that I received at A level and university was appalling to say the least. Students mis-advised me on things and Alexandre Coutu who taught me French to English translation later on had to reeducate me.

It is my personal opinion that this entire thing  called "education" needs to be updated and incompetent fools need to be hauled out of their cushy jobs as teachers.

Scammers and the Naive

Apparently some guy in Liverpool stole from a charity...

He told people a load of lies and they were too dumb to notice...

im gonna try and be a lot less naive.

Matchfixing?

It strikes me as odd that noone has accused Hou Yifan of match fixing!

It would be very easy for her to bet a great deal of money with marathon bet on her losing!

Why hasn't this been raised?