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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!)
As soon as I read this, I automatically thought to myself-- well, the teacher perhaps chose at random. Assuming the majority of the class is originally from America, if the teacher selected a country for each child, then most children will not be representing their country anyway. This means that only one child in the entire class would have to focus on an American Christmas dish. If this parent is concerned, then he needs to contact the teacher in order to express his thoughts on this matter. I am sure the teacher would sympathize with the parent and say that it is a misunderstanding, stating that all of the students' countries were selected at random. I also think that people perhaps (sometimes) take things/situations too personally when they are not specifically directed at them. I do believe that all of this is a slight misunderstanding and the parent needs to contact the teacher with his concerns. |
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Rating
| The suggested solution is respectful of the individual (student) |
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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 |
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| The suggested solution is original |
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| Comments: I agree, people are easily offended and shouldn't take things like this to heart. It is very likely that the countries were chose at random. |
| Rated On: October 17, 2014 8:14 pm |
| Rated By: Doniesha |
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Rating
| 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 9:25 pm |
| Rated By: buTuDe |
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