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 believe this is a great opportunity for your on to learn about a different country and culture. I bet that is why your son wasn't assigned France or Romania. If I were you, I would not be upset, but if you feel strongly about him bringing in French or Romanian food, write the teacher and let them know that you'll also send one from one, or both, of those countries as well. As a teacher, there are not a lot of times in which there is more than enough food items donated to my classroom. Therefore, it will probably not be a problem if you were to send extra in with your son. Also, it might be pretty cool for the class to experience authentic French or Romanian cuisine.