Home | How It Works | Stats Login | Register         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 would not be upset about this because I believe the teacher wanted to make sure that every culture was represented in the lesson. Many students have the same cultural background, so then there would not be much diversity in the foods being brought in for the lesson. Her assigning culture to students is a way to help them learn about other cultures besides there own to give them exposure to how other countries make certain foods that could be similar to their own. It is good for a child to know their own culture and the foods with in them, but the teacher wants all the students to learn the culture of different cultures beside their own.