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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 can see pros and cons to the situation. The teacher, knowing the student's French and Romanian cultural roots, may have wanted the student to explore other cultures to become more well-rounded and knowledgeable of many different cultural traditions. On the other hand, I think it would have been very beneficial to the other students if your child represented France because he might have been able to create a stronger presentation. I think it is definitely up to the teacher which view she takes on the situation because she knows the students better. I personally would have allowed the student to represent his own cultural roots because I feel he would be more interested and invested in the project if it had a personal connection to him. I personally do not feel as if you should be upset about the situation. If you feel strongly that he should represent his own cultural roots perhaps ask the the teacher if he can do both French and German food. |
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