to be annoyed at the school receptionists blatant flouting of my right to privacy?

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We're new at the school, DD1 started reception last week.
I took done contact forms in this morning to the school office window.
THe, very nice, woman took them off me and left them by her side and carried on dealing with the que - with my address completely on show, for any Tom dick or Harry to nose at!
We are exceedingly well respected in the local community as business people and I really don't think that this info should be getting into the public demain.
At least 8 other adults were dealt with after shed put the form down.
Could/should I complain to the HT re the data protection act?
I'm really upset by this.

Priceless. A well respected local business woman with a purple sharpy who can't spell and prefers no one to be able to find her.

Hit woman?

Do these class contact lists really exist. I've never seen one & would certainly never agree to be on one until I had met & knew the people involved.

I give my phone number out to very few people, just close friends.

On the very slight possibility this isn't a wind up, I think I have it.

Did you put down a false address on the application form to get into a good school and don't want to risk someone saying 'that ain't your address you live right by that school in special measures, you have done for year's'?

I could understand it if your contact sheet read like ours with four people with parental responsibility, different dads and warnings of violent offenders on the premises! I am a kinship carer.

If other parents want to know anything (nosy small village school) they just come up and ask me anyway - sometimes I say I don't want to discuss issues private to the children and no-one has ever taken offence. Neither would I care if they did. Other times they just laugh at me.

Gosh you're excited about this op. I'd channel your energies into something constructive. Go and do a dirty protest on the secretary's desk. Nobody'll be looking at your address then.

Yes we have one of those class contact lists. Haven't been inundated with stalkers or anyone turning up at my door and by year 2 you probably know them as well as you're going to.

You have plenty of opportunity to meet "the people involved" if you choose to, our school has pre-school playdate for reception, drinks in first few weeks of term for all parents but aimed at new parents, coffee mornings and PTA meetings as well as good old fashioned pick up and drop off.

But then we are a small one form intake primary and you see people coming out of their houses on their way to school quite often so trying to hide where you live is a bit pointless!

Should have not should of.
Should have.
Should have.
Should have.
Aaaarrrrrgggghhhhhhhh!

Anyone who wants to k ow where you live can walk into your local library and look at the electoral roll. It's all there, out on show

OP is Mrs. Christmas, husband is Father Christmas. Got to be.

I'm right, aren't I? Am sooooooo right!!

Fecking knew he was real!!!

So you know who the other eight people in the queue were? You will just have to hunt them down and kill them before they get a chance to tell anyone else your address (otherwise the number of people you have to kill is just going to increase exponentially and you'll have no time left to devote to your highly respected business.

We don't have a contact list. School won't even give out a list of the first names for Christmas cards as they said its breaking the rules.

Contact list is contributed to by class parents and distributed by class reps - school doesn't get involved and its entirely voluntary though I can;t imagine why at our school you wouldn't.

Are we really the only class who have a class contact list? Good lord I'm amazed.

ladyintheradiator - that would bother me too. OP is objecting about people seeing her address. And actually I don't even think she is being wildly unreasonable - just her comments are!

No Kewcumber, we have one despite the lack of any official parent reps. It's invaluable. I use it to stalk other parents all the time.

When you complain make sure you point out to the HT that you are "exceedingly well respected in the local community as business people"

They wont mess with you again.

Thank you Jinsei - I was beginning to feel like some kind of oddity!

kewcumber, we have a whole school contact list, complied by the PTA. It's voluntary. AFAIK no-one's ever made a fuss about it and the only people I've noticed aren't on it are the teachers, which is fair enough (the teachers who have kids at the school, I mean).

We have class contact lists, Kewcumber.

Public domain kicking it to ya, bass to the place London!

raves

Sorry got distracted there!

"you are not an exceedingly respected person in the community" sadly 'tis true I cannot deny it

If your spelling is generally that bad, whoever may or may not have attempted to read your address probably couldn't have deciphered it anyway...

No JayEee I suspect not - I am the person everyone is trying to hide their address from. I must stop turning up for coffee randomly unannounced.