Comments on: Chess a year 12 subject in Canada! http://chesskids.com.au/2009/10/chess-a-year-12-subject-in-canada/ Chess Coaching and Chess Lessons in Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth Tue, 07 Feb 2012 23:13:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Arnie Nermo http://chesskids.com.au/2009/10/chess-a-year-12-subject-in-canada/comment-page-1/#comment-869 Arnie Nermo Wed, 17 Feb 2010 22:29:49 +0000 http://chesskids.com.au/?p=1566#comment-869 Hello David Cordover and "all" the other chess teachers, coaches and enthusiasts from Down Under. I just came across your wonderful article on the Chess Kids website and decided to give you an update. Luke Campbell has just successfully completed teaching the first-ever Grade 12 chess course in North America (School district #23 Okanagan) and is very excited to be in the process of signing up new students for next year's course. As for myself, in the fall I submitted an updated BAA chess course to my own school district (Abbotsford school district #34). After a great deal of more work, it has just been recently approved...so that now any teacher in my district can teach it, as long as the principal agrees. I'm really excited because it will most likely be offered as a night school course at Abbey Virtual School in the next school year, with myself as the teacher... a dream finally fulfilled! I'm more than willing to share with any teachers, coaches or parents my experiences to help promote chess in their schools. All best from the north side of the pond. Arnie Nermo Robert Bateman Sec. School Abbotsford BC, Canada arnie_nermo@sd34.bc.ca Hello David Cordover and “all” the other chess teachers, coaches and enthusiasts from Down Under.

I just came across your wonderful article on the Chess Kids website and decided to give you an update. Luke Campbell has just successfully completed teaching the first-ever Grade 12 chess course in North America (School district #23 Okanagan) and is very excited to be in the process of signing up new students for next year’s course. As for myself, in the fall I submitted an updated BAA chess course to my own school district (Abbotsford school district #34). After a great deal of more work, it has just been recently approved…so that now any teacher in my district can teach it, as long as the principal agrees. I’m really excited because it will most likely be offered as a night school course at Abbey Virtual School in the next school year, with myself as the teacher… a dream finally fulfilled! I’m more than willing to share with any teachers, coaches or parents my experiences to help promote chess in their schools.
All best from the north side of the pond.

Arnie Nermo
Robert Bateman Sec. School
Abbotsford BC, Canada
arnie_nermo@sd34.bc.ca

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