So stock those pantries on staple products and find frugal minded recipes…bon appetit!

http://hungryforamonth.blogspot.com/

I could eat 33 cents of caviar a day but if the tin cost $250 and I was only eating a single egg… …

Not only that, but I’ve been a vegetarian for 15 years and that has included a lot of vegan food too; these people don’t seem like very good vegans to me. Bean burritos can only sustain you for so long and tortillas are pricey given a target of $1 per day (and not very nutritional).

Despite being teachers, common sense would dictate you would say $14 for two people for a week instead of budgeting daily. That’s a pot of vegan chilli from canned beans right there with lots left over for other meals. (And look, the chilli makes great burrito filling… *jab*)

Parents who attempt to supplement their children’s education at home–or worse, homeschool them outright–are either viewed as antiquated freaks, or potentially dangerous radicals. Most parents just throw their kids into the public school system and expect the teachers to raise them. Unfortunately, the average American school has become a soapbox for various political causes that honestly have no place in such a venue, and shouldn’t be pushed on kids who don’t yet have the maturity or comprehensive skills to make an informed decision.

Political causes have their place. They are what make a nation vibrant and encourage growth. But when they are introduced into the classroom, they take on the flavor of indoctrination.

–TwoDragons

Define social justice.

Given the common definitions of the first word of the phrase, it would seem to indicate a type of justice which is determined by ‘society’ at large. That is to say, it is “common justice” or “popular justice.” In practice, that is exactly what the students learn in social justice classes: they learn a type of justice that is politically correct, common, and popular. That is merely another form of baseless morality. What is good and moral? Why, whatever the masses agree upon at the given moment. The position is untenable. The social justice teachers take no time and expend no effort in determining the ultimate source of all justice. Indeed, one must logically make certain assumptions about what is good and what is evil before engaging in any ration discourse over ‘justice.’ What actually happens is the students merely learn to enforce a set of beliefs and morals fed to them, without considering the Source of those teachings. It breaks the minds of those students by convincing them that they are in fact “just” without even defining the term.

One MUST consider apriori positions in any field which touches upon the way a man OUGHT to behave.

Most of the unusual courses offered in our province are not fluff courses because it takes a lot of work to get them off the ground and running.

It’s unfortunate that you see teachers using courses like this to push their own agendas. I see it too sometimes but for the most part teachers are really teaching kids in a fair and balanced way. Most of my colleagues encourage the students to ask questions and disagree. We spend a lot of our professional development time working on how to deliver a curriculum in the best way, reaching all learning styles.

Of course having said all that, I am lucky enough to be at a school with a fairly young and progressive staff. So even though my school is designated “inner city” (low socio-economic area) I don’t always see the same problems as the other local schools.

Typical lefty mind control attitude: if you agree with me, then you obviously have the capacity to reason. If you don’t agree with me, then you obviously lack the capacity to reason.

As for this couple and their silly experiment – yes, they are attention whores.

For one, courses such as “Social Justice” and “Gender Issues” have become the PRIMARY aspect of schooling, and classic subjects have taken a back seat. I work with a large group of youth ranging from Kindergarten-age (including my son) to graduation-age. It’s amazing how many of these otherwise highly intelligent and reasonable kids are also lacking in basic skills. They show an exceptional awareness of the course of the nation and the world around them…but are almost illiterate, or need a calculator to do anything beyond basic math.

Secondly, there is a highly unfortunate tendency for the educators of such courses to turn their classrooms into their personal soapboxes, and their students into their army of supporters. There is little to no impartiality in these venues. In many cases they become a breeding-ground not for youth capable of reasonable thought, but for vapid, rabid, hype-fed packs of professional picketers.

These are kids whose lack of solid basic education leaves them vulnerable to media spin and unable to fact-check the data they are given. They see nothing wrong with being spoon-fed whatever the teacher serves them–or worse, are afraid to debate the teacher for fear of failing the course–because they have no capacity for the same “reasonable, logical” thought that such classes were originally intended to generate.

We have created a generation of vulnerable, gullible children whose primary source of world information is from thirty-second blurbs on CNN or Fox, can spell only in text-messaging shorthand, and have all the attention span of a lobotomized goldfish. They chase whatever cause catches their eye, then drop it for something more trendy. They don’t know how to truly change the world, they only know how to scream at everyone else to do it.

As for the couple in the post, they provide a fine example of exactly what I am talking about. Would you trust your kids to those two…? I certainly wouldn’t.

–TwoDragons

Just kidding. What The heck is this about! They dicide to eat on a dollar a day, but spend much more than that on some. Eating in bulk but just a little bit at a time. Who could afford that if you lived on a dollar a day! There just crazy people seeking attention and pretending to be modest. ” I don’t want this atention!” Blah!

Ah, yes. I see your point. It’s so nice to recognize social injustices. It’s an absolute necessity to spend the rest of your life raising the public awareness of various causes, while having noone of the educational capacity to actually DO anything about them.

Then when you go out to shout about whatever fad cause you have been spoon fed this week by the media because of your complete lack of capacity to reason on your own, you can just ask your homeschooled friends to proofread your picket signs for you.

I’ll stick to teaching my children the good old tried-and-true basics in education, thanks. It gives them a nice, stable foundation to base their logic and reasoning skills upon than a diet of ephemeral feel-good fluff courses.

–TwoDragons

Sure, doing something like this for yourself may be an exploration in apprciating what you have by seeing the other side – just like bringing little Timmy down to the homeless shelter on Christmas eve. and that’s good – almost anything that expands your mind/perceptions are.

but the blog aspect of it does seem to change their motivation from self-growth to smugness and attention-wanting. In my opinion at least.

There there. *pats angry babies on head*

They did not blog about it for OUR benefit. Like all bloggers, they did it because they’re self important blowhards looking to have their egos stroked and get their Andy Warhol approved 15 minutes.

Someone should start a new site. “Beat a self righteous blogger to death every day for 30 days”. God knows there’s enough out there.

Quit being so cynical and give people the benefit of the doubt.

Hardly.

It’s incredibly valuable to have future journalists, lawyers, judges, teachers, business people, etc., aware of and thinking about issues of social justice.

People who claim that “reading, writing, and arithmetic” once led to some sort of golden age of education are unfamiliar with the history of education and of our country.

Sounds like a load of BS.

http://www.realsimple.com/realsimple/gallery/0,21863,1844394,00.html

He just had all his friends and family pay for his stuff.

-acquire knowledge that allows them to recognize
and understand the causes of injustice
-apply critical thinking and ethical reasoning skills
to a variety of social justice issues
-develop an understanding of what it means to act in
a socially just manner
-become responsible agents of change, making
positive contributions toward a socially just world.

http://www.hillbillyhousewife.com/40dollarmenu.htm

Food isn’t expensive in this country. If you want to eat healthily but are poor you can do so, it just takes some thought and preparation.

Sheesh, I must be getting old…

–TwoDragons

they are looking for attention more than anything else.

It’s just another blog by a couple of attention seeking, condescending self important douches saying “look at us doing something meaningful” when in actuality what they’re doing is damaging the cause of those living in genuine poverty by seemingly highlighting how you can eat properly on a dollar a day, when in actual fact you need to spend a huge chunk of cash in advance to so, cash that people living in poverty naturally wouldn’t have. But of course pointing out up front how utterly pointless your experiment is means a lot less hits to your blog.

If they ever do it PROPERLY and don’t cheat, and genuinely live like those living on a very limited income are forced too, that being living hand to mouth and only being able to buy small quantities of food, instead of the 5 pound packages of yeast, 25 pounds of rice etc… they bought this time, then go right ahead and blog about it, because reading and watching two self aggrandizing egotists starve to death would actually be worth following and would highlight what is facing those living in real poverty and, you know, serve an actual purpose rather than their current exercise in self congratulatory masturbation.

“I said “Pretend you’ve got no money”
But she just laughed
And said “oh you’re so funny”.
I said “yeah?
Well I can’t see anyone else smiling in here”

Pulp – “Common People”