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!) The teacher was most likely assigning countries randomly to students and may not have remembered about your sons heritage. On the other hand, she may have given him Germany so that he too could study a different country like the rest of the class. Since your son already knows a lot about France and Romania he too will benefit from the lesson because he is having to learn about a different country. I would not be upset about this and just let it be a cultural lesson about another country that he may know nothing about. Your son may also want to learn about another country because he does already know so much about France and Romania.