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!) from my point of view the teacher may be assigning alternative countries to students regardless of background because she wants them to learn a new culture. However I think you could reach out and ask the teacher if your son could also bring in a food that presents the families culture. A double win! Most teachers wont say no to extra work done by a student and what an awesome combination of cultures your son would be able to share all while still completing the assigned assignment, still making it fair bc I am sure most students were assigned a alternative culture than their own.