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 agree with mentioning it nicely to the teacher who can then take action as they see fit.

Nursery returned my ds’s birth certificate to us last year (they’d had to photocopy it to prove he was eligible for the funded hours) but there was another child’s certificate in the envelope as well. I didn’t know the parents so I put it in the mailbox at nursery the following week and emailed them to tell them what had happened. I didn’t see the need to make a drama out of it.

Mistakes happen. I bet the person who muddled them up will feel awful. You'll score more points by being cool about it. I do feel for school staff. People feel inordinately precious about their children so minor errors can be whip up a pitchfork waving mob.

I wouldn't make any fuss at all. The office staff are so busy and they've just slipped the wring one onto the wrong envelope. We all make mistakes

So upset about the school sending home the wrong report (fine can see why) not worried about sending them to each other on a non secure internet service.

But GDPR.

Cadbury a birth certificate is a public document and I can pay and order a copy of anyone’s birth certificate- it’s not a breach of personal data - bizarre

not worried about sending them to each other on a non secure internet service.

Depends which messenger service they used, op doesn’t specify and some messenger services are encrypted very securely

Gosh, I shall have to set up a seance to ask my conservative, DM reading grandmother if she was super into gender neutral shite and if that’s why she called me kiddo.

Yeah, I wouldn’t call it flaming, but I’d be rather firm about what an invasion of privacy it is for some random to know the ins and outs of kiddo’s education/development. I think contacting HT is fine.

It is a GDPR breach. As such, the offender needs to notify the relevant parties of the breach (but you dudes already know). It then needs to be reported to the person in charge of data protection in the school (there is supposed to be a nominated person).

Hope both kiddos reports were equal enough so that you don't get to gloat or feel gloated over.

Oh dear. Flaming only required if you want to be known as “that” parent.

Should it have happened? No. Is it the end of the world? No. Teachers are under insane amounts of pressure and it was probably done very late at night/after hours.

I’m assuming you wouldn’t want to be flamed if you made a mistake at work?

Yes a mistake was made. However my 6 year old could tell me the names, months of birth, reading stages, spelling test results, behaviour issues etc of each child in their class. It’s not a “major confidentiality breach”.

All this talk of security breaches and data protection..its a childs school report for christs sake not an mI5 document. So it happened OP. And what is the problem? What so terrible has actually happened? Have great secrets been revealed? Is your child scarred for life? What has actually been the result?

Ime most of the stuff you get in a school report is standard paragraphs downloaded from a database. DSs have frequently changed from He to She and sometimes changed name half way through. They are a bit of a waste of time. My DSs were very different children but I'd be hard pushed to tell which report was who's as they are pretty bland and half the time just describe what they have been doing e.g. This term we have been studying the Vikings and X has enjoyed this. Funnily enough I was able to work this out from the homework to build a viking helmet/boat/shield.

Well data protection and GDPR is here to stay, whether we like it or not it matters as it built into our law. So whether your opinion is no harm has been done from someone’s data being shared is immaterial, in the same way you may think that shoplifting is not hurting anyone or slander doesn’t matter - there are laws governing these behaviours and it does matter

Well data protection and GDPR is here to stay
GDPR is EU regulation so maybe not....

teatea, You do realise that dpa 2018 is pretty much the same but uk legislation - and it’s been around since 1998. Do you know the difference between DPA and GDPR?

It's a report card. It's not like they amputated the wrong leg

Also @Nursejackie1 hahahaha

I'm not pretending to be an expert on either no. Just pointing out that GDPR is EU and from a layman's perspective if it's the same as DPA then I don't understand the recent hoo Haa round GDPR. I'm sure you know more than me about it

Every semester our children have a portfolio of their work sent home with their most “important work” - the tests, big assignments etc. I do read them because I like to know what they’re leaning and where they’re at. Last time my daughter ended up with a big history assignment from another child in with hers. I did not flame the teacher, just popped a note and the boy’s work in the fromt of the folder when it needed to be returned.

There was no fall out, I can’t even remember which child it was and the teacher has been awesome this year and I really like her.

There are laws governing this so it dies matter...erm why??? If there is no harm done then seriously theres no point putting the full weight of the laws that are there to protect people from really serious breaches onto a bloody school report. Yes there are laws but theres also such a thing as common sense or I thought there was. Please just calm down and have a cup of tea. Its all going to be fine, I promise.

Nurse Jackie, it is explained up thread why it needs to be reported. As for whether no harm is done - we don’t know that and maybe not this time, but another time it maybe it will. There is no harm in tightening up procedures so it doesn’t happen again and possibly affect someone on another occasion. But if it’s not reported then nothing will be done to prevent it happening.

Oh get a grip- you could display the report card blown up on a billboard. I guaruntee no one cares little Johnny got a B in spelling and works well with others.

There are many things to be outraged about. This is not one of them.

My dad always called me 'kiddo'

Made me smile reading your title!

Calls the grandsons the same now!

Yes, not good but as it's caused no real harm then I think an email highlighting it was fine and enough.

Look it does matter that no harm was done. And i know no harm was done because what possible harm could come of this?! I understand "flaming" somebody for doing something with malice or sonwbody consistently making harmful careless mistakes but please use a bit of perspective here. Most people going to work are hard working, decent people with the same stresses and strains as everyone else. People on this thread have been scraping the barrel trying to find possible horrific outcomes but they just don't exist. How about thinking of it from the other view? Maybe the person who did it is a carer at home who has no sleep and is working hard to keep the family fed etc. Maybe they just had some awful news regarding theirs or a loved ones health. Maybe they are up to their eyeballs in it and are bogged down and working ridiculous deadlines. Maybe colleagues were off sick. Or maybe they are just a human being that made an innocent harmless mistake as we all have. What a nasty world we live in where people are waiting to pounce on anyone for a simple mistake. Let it go and be kinder to each other. Life is hard enough for most people as it is without this sort of hysterical shit over nothing. As La belle said GET A GRIP.