Checkmate: sixth-grade teacher taught life lessons through chess

When I saw that Bradley Rogers had died, I stopped for a minute. Then I decided that I wanted to write something about him. Admittedly, I wasn’t sure that I had enough to write. After all, it has been — well, let’s just say considerable enough years since I knew him that I wasn’t sure I could fill a page. Mr. Rogers was my sixth-grade teacher at Batavia Middle School. I can