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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!) This is a common theme in the answers but it was what I was thinking before I started reading the responses. I do not think you should be upset. The purpose of this assignment is probably to open the students eyes to different cultures. Since your son is aware of the French and Romanian cultures the teacher just wanted to open up a new culture to him as with all the other students in the classroom are learning new foods. Maybe you could talk with the teacher and let her allow your son time to share his personal experiences of French/Romanian Christmas culture. This way he can still bring in German food but share his knowledge of his own culture with his class. I teacher would most likely have no problems with this approach since it is all about learning about new cultures. |
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