What alternative can I suggest when a family-tree assignment asks my adopted child for information we don't have?
EducationMy daughter filled in our names, then put question marks in the boxes above her birth parents. "Do I lose marks for the question marks?" she asked.
She's eight. The homework template asks for parents, grandparents and where each person was born. We don't have all that information, and I don't want to invent it or turn her homework into a public explanation of her adoption.
The teacher may be trying to introduce generations and places, not test anyone's family records. I haven't asked whether the template is compulsory. My daughter likes drawing branches for the people she knows; she doesn't want classmates asking about the empty ones.
How should I ask for an alternative that still meets the learning goal? I want to help her complete something honestly, without making her responsible for explaining why the worksheet doesn't fit.