WTF? It’s 7.40pm and a teacher has just randomly turned up at my house

[birmanbaby]

To give me new starter forms for DD who is starting reception in September

I already have a DD at the school so if they’re trying to save on postage she could have given them to her.

It’s a bit weird no?

Poor teacher! That can’t be in their job description.

Poor teacher? . It’s not in the job description because it’s utterly inappropriate for teaching staff to be taking it upon themselves to knock on students doors in the evening.

It's really not "inappropriate" for school staff to deliver a letter if they're going that way

This is taking official snooping (it can't be anything else, surely?) to a weird and creepy level.

It could be... Delivering a letter?

Why would it be ‘official snooping’?

Why is it anything more than someone making sure a letter gets to where it needs to in time?

@AbbyHammond it really IS innapropriate to knock on a pupils door in the evening just as it would be for the parent to do it at the teachers home address.

Oh FFS! The teacher probably forgot to hand it to the older daughter at home time and thought I'll pop it in on the way home!

Which is obviously fine @Festa assuming a teacher would be fine with a parent knocking on the door because she’d forgotten a permission slip.

Are there honestly teachers who would be happy for parents to knock on their doors in the evening to drop something off? I would be really upset and feel it was a huge invasion of my privacy. I’m not sure why that wouldn’t work both ways.

If I needed to drop something in to a teacher and knew their address/they were my neighbour then of course I would!

Really, what us the problem

Because most teachers really don’t want parents dropping in after school (and vice versa). It’s about boundaries. Most people prefer to allow others privacy in their home and some time off. Teachers don’t want to open the door in their dressing gown to their pupils or their pupils parents and the same is true the other way around.

Knocking on someone's door isn't invading their privacy It's a pretty normal occurrence!

So do you imagine teachers would welcome parents knocking on their doors?

Yes, I can't imagine it being a problem if a parent needed to drop something off at 7.30pm. It wasn't 11.

Many of the teachers I know go to considerable lengths (eg long commutes) specifically to avoid mixing home and school.

How odd.

A teacher knocking on a pupils door is not the same as a pupil/parent knocking on a teacher's door. There is one teacher and hundreds of children- the teacher spends all day with the pupils- they are her work and she is providing a service to those families she teaches and if you knocked on her door for school related issues it would be like taking advantage of her because you could wait until the morning and working hours. You however, never even see the teacher so her knocking on your door isn't extending your working day into your evening and private life.

I disagree @Fresta I think it is the same, it’s just the teachers have decided it’s OK.

My take on this is that the teacher forgot to give the envelope to your other child. Quite a few parents are getting stressed about receiving new starter packs (we get lots of phone calls querying when they will get them at this time of year). If friends get them and someone doesn't get their's at same time we get complaints.
So teacher dropped it off. Its important to make sure it is posted through correct door so knocked to double check. I know of a hand delivery that went through the wrong door and there was merry hell to pay! I wonder, did envelope have address on? If ours are going via a sibling it just has name on, then if the front office is closed by the time the teacher noticed the forgotten envelope there is no way to check.

Your GP calling round to your house isn’t remotely the same as you calling round to your GP’s house!
(Though I’d be bloody worried if my doctor called at my house )