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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!) The teacher may not actually know the students heritage, and may be inferring based upon what she believes the student's accent to be. As someone from the US, occasionally it is difficult to decipher an exact country based upon an accent; whereas it may be simpler to determine the general region (all three are located in western Europe). I would not be offended by this, as it is likely just a simple mistake by the teacher. I would, however, speak to the teacher about the misunderstanding and ask that your child be able to bring in foods that are truly representative of his cultural heritage. |
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