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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 do not think you should be upset about this. I understand that the son has strong roots in Romania and France however, the teacher is trying to expose the students to different cultures that they may not be familiar with. If she would have assigned him one of the cultures he has a background in, it would be similar to the teacher assigning all of the students countries they were familiar with (which would probably be America for many). I think the teacher did the right thing by assigning the student a different country. It is good for the child to represent a part of his own heritage but that was not the point of the activity . |
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