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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 feel the teacher intended to offend your family. She assigned a variety of countries to students in the class to provide a truly global feel to the assignment. Since many children may have only experienced a few different types of ethnic food I believe she wanted to broaden the variety of food that would be provided. I would recommend that your son research about German recipes and Christmas traditions. He could then select a dish of his choice that with your help he could prepare for the class. In so doing he would complete the assignment requirements and learn about another culture. I would also recommend that you contact the teacher and offer to provide French and Romanian dishes to share with the class. Your son could help create his cultural dishes and discuss his culture with the class. You and your wife could also volunteer to come in to speak to the class about French and Romanian Christmas traditions. Your son could then explain how your family combines the traditions at home to create your families own unique cultural traditions. Doing so would demonstrate to the class that unique cultural traditions can be combined to create a new cultural tradition. That is a presentation any teacher supportive of teaching children about diverse cultures would be glad to have shared in their class. |
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| The suggested solution is reasonable (easy) for the teacher to implement |
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| Comments: Excellent solution! |
| Rated On: October 18, 2014 2:34 pm |
| Rated By: TuBuJy |
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| 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 9:26 pm |
| Rated By: buTuDe |
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