Your Favourite Bean Recipes

Sir_Humphrey

A Kenyan recipe fed to schoolchildren in rural areas is as follows:

Take maize. Take beans. Boil in salted water over a wood stove (remember no electricity except for diesel generators).

Serve in a bowl.

I am not making this up, I promise.

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Ultimate survivalist food. Best served with a shotgun and tin foil hat.

oldMcDonald

mr.broderick wrote: »

Can I just vent my anger at this thread still being alive.

My Ronaldo thread was cut down within 24 hours, on that note can i just confirm how happy i am that we have retained his services for next season

No, you may not.

You are a very angry gentleman, MrB, who gets upset by little things such as this thread still running and by people who post about stuff you don't agree with (ok, carolt).

Go get yourself some stress relief / anger management.

mr.broderick

oldMcDonald wrote: »

No, you may not.

You are a very angry gentleman, MrB, who gets upset by little things such as this thread still running and by people who post about stuff you don't agree with (ok, carolt).

Go get yourself some stress relief / anger management.

Of course you do realise this is my stress relief and i don't believe i word of what i write here but i do feel that you would be a good wife to have.

oldMcDonald

mr.broderick wrote: »

Of course you do realise this is my stress relief and i don't believe i word of what i write here but i do feel that you would be a good wife to have.

I know you are just being your playful little self, MrB, so I can't be a r $ed to come back with a smart reply.

(truth is, I can't think of one!)

moanymoany

Beanz meanz heinz!

I make baked beans in my slow cooker and they are cheaper than value and taste delicious.

I think oldmac would be a lovely mum to have - Mr.B, does that mean I can call you virtual dad? :kisses3:

neverdespairgirl

PasturesNew wrote: »

There's no qualification here needed if you want to teach your own kids, is there?

And if you do home school, are you required to follow a syllabus etc and be tested etc? Probably not, but I've no idea.

I have a vague notion that you have to satisfy the local education authority that you are providing a proper education for the children.

I know teachers at private schools don't have to be qualified. Some of my teachers didn't have a PGCE.

neverdespairgirl

mr.broderick wrote: »

Can I just vent my anger at this thread still being alive.
My Ronaldo thread was cut down within 24 hours, on that note can i just confirm how happy i am that we have retained his services for next season

Who is the Ronaldo you keep banging on about?

PasturesNew

mr.broderick wrote: »

Can I just vent my anger at this thread still being alive.


My Ronaldo thread was cut down within 24 hours, on that note can i just confirm how happy i am that we have retained his services for next season

Your Ronaldo thread was clearly p00.

This one isn't.

You could start another thread that descends very quickly into an out and out war before being pulled, like you did on Monday

BobProperty

oldMcDonald wrote: »

...You do, however need to be able to provide proof to the LEA that your child is being educated according to their age and ability.

Which isn't the case in some states in the US, from what I can work out.

oldMcDonald wrote: »

Many children are unable to get by in mainstream schools due to the way that subjects are taught - many children with Aspergers, for example, find it very hard to fit into mainstream and often learn very well when allowed to focus on one subject for many weeks before moving on to a new one - schools are unable to offer this kind of focused education.

Agreed. One US blog I follow has that (or a very similar) situation. Fortunately, the parent is degree educated and works as a private tutor so knows what she is doing.

oldMcDonald wrote: »

Over here, home educated children usually find it easy to get into college and university, home education is often seen as a positive thing as it usually means that from an early age children have been encouraged to research and discuss rather than listen and write down.

I know of one HE child who could not settle in college as she found it hard to sit down and work to a timetable - she is now doing voluntary work overseas. Equally though, I know many who have gone to college, on to uni and are in 'normal' employment.

What irritates me about the US homeschoolers is that they think their education is good enough to get their kids into college (if they want them to go to college that is), without demonstrating any proof that this is the case. One of my many annoyances with them is that they tend to fixate on socio-religious lines and don't allow the kids to think or even learn to think. Then, add to that, the children with problems like Aspergers who don't get the help they need in state schools have their parent(s) pull them out and homeschool them even though the parents have very little idea about what to do to educate their children. There's the further "social" interaction differences that a homeschooled child will have compared to a child who has been to school. The latter will have probably been involved in team sports and similar group activities where the homeschooled child will have no or very limited experience of group interaction and social situations. Hence the conclusion that out of the "problem" people in society, there's a disproportionate number who have been homeschooled.

moanymoany

There are lots of USA fundamentalist housewife/mother sites full of their ideas. They are storing food against the evil day, they beat the devil out of their children and they live frugal lives. Their husband is the king of their world and they obey his every whim - good sites for DD!