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Case: Christmas around the world. My son goes to second grade. The first week of December my son's teacher started a short unit on Christmas around the world. As part of this unit, she asked each child to bring some type of food from a country for a Christmas celebration at school. She assigned the countries to the children and sent notes to children's homes in their communication folders. As a parent I do not have a problem with any of this. Here is what is puzzling to me. I immigrated to the US about 15 years ago from France. My wife is from Romania. My son was born in the US but he has strong French and Romanian cultural roots. I believe his teacher knows about my son's cultural background. However, my son was assigned to bring German food for the Christmas celebration. As a parent, I cannot understand why he was not assigned to bring French or Romanian food. What could be the teacher's reasoning? Should I be upset about this? Wouldn't it be better for my son to represent a part of his heritage in the classroom? Solution: (Rates are posted for this solution!) I believe that the teacher's goal with the assignment is to get students to learn about different Christmas cultures. If your son is assigned one of his own cultures then he is really not going to learn anything new. He would also not have to do as much research or think independently on how or why a culture celebrates Christmas the way that it does. He would be speaking on something he already knows about. If students are assigned a culture that they are not familiar with then every student will hopefully learn something new and teach that something knew to the rest of the class. Although I believe that students could have been given the chance to pick to their own country to research, I also understand why the teacher chose to do this assignment this way. |
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