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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!)
You said that you "believe" the teacher knows about your sounds cultural background related to Romanian and French roots, but you do not sound certain of this. It may simply be that the teacher did not think about this connection. Another scenario may be that the teacher knows your son already knows a lot about the French and Romanian cultures and the teacher would like to give your son the opportunity to explore other cultures. I do not think this is something to be upset about, as I believe the teacher did not have intentions of upsetting you or your son. I think that you and your son should take this as a learning opportunity to discover things about the German culture and food. |
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| The suggested solution is respectful of the individual (student) |
No
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| The suggested solution is relevant to the case |
Yes
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| The suggested solution is reasonable (easy) for the teacher to implement |
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| The suggested solution is original |
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| Comments: I would never do this. First I do not believe that you should assume that the teacher knew your background, and choose not to assign that country to you. I think you should consider that the teacher has multiple students and being fair and assigning different cultures to every student is hard enough. |
| Rated On: February 23, 2015 11:18 pm |
| Rated By: Autumn Carroll |
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| The suggested solution is respectful of the individual (student) |
Yes
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| The suggested solution is relevant to the case |
Yes
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| The suggested solution is reasonable (easy) for the teacher to implement |
Yes
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| The suggested solution is likely to solve the problem/issue |
Yes
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| The suggested solution is original |
Yes
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| Comments: I agree that the teacher is probably trying to get her students to learn about other cultures. |
| Rated On: April 15, 2022 1:14 pm |
| Rated By: beVuLu |
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| The suggested solution is respectful of the individual (student) |
Yes
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| The suggested solution is relevant to the case |
Yes
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| The suggested solution is reasonable (easy) for the teacher to implement |
Yes
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| The suggested solution is likely to solve the problem/issue |
Yes
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| The suggested solution is original |
Yes
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| Comments: agreed |
| Rated On: November 13, 2022 9:32 pm |
| Rated By: buTuDe |
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