To flame the school for sending kiddo home with someone else's report & they got hers

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What the title says. It's not ok, right, if the school sends your child home with another kids report & they get your child's report?

We have shared pics of them over messenger & kids will swap them back at school on Monday. But wondering how much of a fuss to make to the school about the mess-up. Thoughts?

I wouldn't make any kind of fuss, it's a mistake, humans make mistakes, it's not got highly sensitive medical test results, it's just academic progress. Swap back, forget about it, move on with life.

Can’t get past the use of ‘kiddo’

Obviously its not good but the person who made the mistake probably feels terrible about it and worried to.

I think we have all made mistakes at work - I once made an awful, stupid mistake and felt so embarrassed.

*too.

Meh. Honest mistake, swap them, mention it in passing to the teacher if you really have to.

Not sure what the point of 'flaming' them would be. It's a mistake - a bit annoying but not exactly the end of the world.

Nope - I couldn’t get worked up about this. And as for ‘flaming’ - why the drama? You’re going to need a relationship with the school for a while and acting like an angry tool isn’t how to go about it.

You seem to know the other kiddos parents well enough to exchange pics of the report over messenger so in that regard I can’t see the need for a big fuss. It’s an error, we are human, in this case no harm done.

I would say no harm has been done. Results have been shared between the two of you. It’s not worth getting upset about just let the school know. It’s human error and if you made a mistake at work would you want to be flamed for it?

I would make no fuss. Mistakes happen.
(Id have a quick peek at the other report though)

Fair dos, have sent email to head to make them aware. I do know other parent so it is fine but some parents probably wouldn't be ok. Pretty major confidentiality breach really.

Not a fan of 'dc/dd/etc' hence kiddo

Happened to me last year. We swapped reports on the monday. Job done. Nobody got flamed, nobody was upset. Why the drama?

Out of interest is one of the comments in the report 'child struggles to recognise own name in written form'

It's an admin error. No flaming required.

That’s why you should let the school know just do it without all the flaming and dramatics. Yes it could have been hideous if it happened to the wrong parents. But it didn’t. The staff member needs to know that. But it’s not the end of the world- they can learn from it.

I’d be really angry if this happened to me. DS struggles at school, we’ve had Ed psych reports, he has lots of learning support and is at a selective private school where we are all working hard to get him up to where he needs to be.

If the contents of his school report were being discussed in the playground I’d be apoplectic with rage.

But mean to go to the head I'd say. Nitcsurevyoull be flavpur of the month with your do teacher but you'll have to deal with that reputation at school now

I predict it will backfire more on you than them and say that as a teacher

And you know that this isn't the fault of the children, as opposed to the school, because...?

Argh predictive text! But I'm sure you can read between!

Sending a quick email to the teacher would have been fine. Going to the head is ott. I'm a teacher and I'd be pissed off if that happened to me. We're all human, we all make mistakes.

I dont understand, in my school reports go home in a sealed envelope. How is this a security breech? Being unopened letters back and swap. No big deal. It’s illegal to open someone else’s letter so I don’t understand the issue.

They were in envelopes with the wrong names on.

Prat I am then, so be it - love the Mumsnet bitchiness, esp on a Friday night when likely everyone's had a glass or two

And by that I mean the wrong report was in the envelope with my child's name on it in case that wasn't clear

seven school reports need to go to the correct parents. How can you be so blasé about that? Would you be OK if a colleague got a copy of your end of year appraisal?