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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!)
I view this situation from a teacher's stand point. What she may have done (and I truly hope she did it this way) is randomly assign students to a culture. Doing so eliminates students choosing a culture and then others not getting what they want, fighting over one, etc. Also, she may not be able to sit down and really go through each student and their culture. I believe what she is doing is trying to be fair by simply assigning students a culture to study, regardless of theirs. The purpose of the assignment, it sounds like, is to learn about a culture with which you are not familiar. By having your student bring in a food that relates specifically to his heritage, he is not really learning about another one, like German, with which he does not know. |
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| The suggested solution is respectful of the individual (student) |
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| The suggested solution is relevant to the case |
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| The suggested solution is reasonable (easy) for the teacher to implement |
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| The suggested solution is likely to solve the problem/issue |
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| The suggested solution is original |
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| Comments: If I were in this situation, I would exactly do this. |
| Rated On: October 17, 2014 8:13 pm |
| Rated By: Doniesha |
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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 |
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| The suggested solution is likely to solve the problem/issue |
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| The suggested solution is original |
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| Comments: I agree, this is an activity to learn about others cultures, if he was assigned his own culture he wouldn't be learning anything new. |
| Rated On: October 19, 2014 4:50 pm |
| Rated By: Angela Avery |
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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 9:18 pm |
| Rated By: buTuDe |
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