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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 totally agree with you. As a teacher we must make sure we know the background of each of our students and what their heritage is. If this teacher is fully aware that your child has these strong cultural roots then I would have a meeting with the teacher to see if this child can bring in something from his parents culture. On the other hand the teacher may just want your child to go beyond what he already knows about his culture and learn about a different one. There is a possibility she assigned your country to another student and she will later ask your son to extend on that child's project to see if there is anything different. |
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