# Chess in the School Curriculum **URL:** \ **Category:** All Things Chess\ **Created:** [January 27, 2015, 1:38am UTC](https://forum.uschess.org/t/chess-in-the-school-curriculum/20144 "2015-01-27T01:38:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Dayman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Dayman](https://forum.uschess.org/u/Dayman)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2015, 1:38am UTC](https://forum.uschess.org/t/chess-in-the-school-curriculum/20144/1 "2015-01-27T01:38:19Z")
Indulge me in my fantasy for a moment. Let’s just pretend that my state legislature and school board was on board with idea of including chess as part of the curriculum for students (even including college students) and/or making chess an extra curricular activity in which all/most schools participate (just like band or football or anything else) and they came to me and asked for the curriculum/program that they should adopt. Does such a curriculum/program already exist? Are there parts of the country where this dream has already been realized? What are the best programs out there? ---
**Author:** ![childrenandchess](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.uschess.org/childrenandchess/32/35_2.png) [@childrenandchess](https://forum.uschess.org/u/childrenandchess)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2015, 2:15pm UTC](https://forum.uschess.org/t/chess-in-the-school-curriculum/20144/2 "2015-01-27T14:15:05Z")
Please look at the August 2014 issue of Chess Life (p. 11, “Chess gets an A+ in Texas”) about how chess is part of UIL (University Interscholastic League, [http://www.uiltexas.org/](http://www.uiltexas.org/)). Chess is for the A+ division of UIL, grades 2-8. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.uschess.org/system/32/2_2.png) [@system](https://forum.uschess.org/u/system)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2024, 8:36am UTC](https://forum.uschess.org/t/chess-in-the-school-curriculum/20144/3 "2024-04-22T08:36:54Z")