Have you ever thought about your child not being able to survive in the world? Or not understanding how to respect other cultures? Or why your child gets bullied?Well, it all has to do with schools having classes that have to do with different cultures. Good reasons that support this idea include:children can survive in the world,learn how to respect other cultures, and if a studentlearns of or knows of another culture and beliefs it will help prevent bullying.
As a parent you know that your child needs to survive in the world in the future because you will not be there with them every second like you do now. So it is important to teach your child the skills they need in the future to survive and tolerate things and persevere. Scholastic’s article Teaching "Diversity": A Place to Begin states that,”Discrimination hurts and leaves scars that can last a lifetime,affecting goals,life choices,and feelings of self worth”. Scholastic’s article Teaching "Diversity": A Place to Begin also states that,”It’s very important to let children know from a very early age that name calling of any kind is hurtful and wrong.” When your child in the future gets insulted in another language and it happens to be a language that thay know, they will be able to identify it easily. They will immediately know that it is wrong. As before in the first statement by scholastic, the insult might affect their goal. Since they know it is wrong they will try to persevere and ignore it. Another example is when your child gets a job, then they will have to travel to countries. Countries have many different languages and if your child knows them ,they will be able to interpret it and understand.During a young age is good to teach them many languages...
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...ality. Schools teach classes that have to do with different cultures. If you want your child to survive in the world, respect other cultures and not get bullied it is essential that they learn about all this.The skills give your child a boost of preparedness to survive the world.
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