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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!) You should not be upset with the teacher for this specific situation. It looks like the purpose of the assignment was to expose your child to different cultures around the world and become familiar with cultures they are not already familiar with. As a result, it is good your teacher assigned your child Germany and not France or Romania. Maybe one way for the teacher to improve the assignment would be for students to be able to share any unique Christmas traditions from their family in addition to the work they did on the unfamiliar country. This would allow students to learn something new and contribute something from their personal cultural experience to the classroom. |
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