To think I've not got teacher into trouble

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So, I have a dd in reception in a state school.
A few weeks ago she left a comforter at school by accident.
She’s still very young to be in reception and she kept a comforter in her tray while she was settling in (which the teachers were fine with)
Anyway we realised that school would be locked so found a spare we had for that night as she won’t sleep without it.
After tea her teacher knocked on our door with it as she was worried she’d be upset realising she’d left it at school and had found it when tidying up the dressing up box.
Dd was over the moon and we thought it was a lovely gesture.
Anyway I mentioned how lovely this was to a couple of parents and they looked a bit annoyed, as though dd was getting special treatment.
So, come to this week and the school has ofsted in. The ofsted inspectors were in the playground yesterday asking parents for feedback.
I told the inspector the story of the comforter to try and portray how lovely and caring the teachers are.
Now another parent said I shouldn’t have mentioned it and that the teacher will be in big trouble for coming to our house out of school hours.
I’m panicking now that I’ve got her into trouble.
Thoughts please?

We live on the main road out of our town and teacher would have to pass our house on her way home if that makes any difference. It literally took her 30 seconds to pop comforter in. She didn’t even come inside.

I'm friends with 3 of my ds old teachers and she came to visit many times even when ds was at that school

I think the other parent is a shit-stirrer! I highly doubt the teacher will be in trouble.

I really hope she won’t get into trouble.
She’s so lovely.

It sounds a lovely thing to do, I'm not sure why she would be in trouble, they system is very wrong if she is.

Yeah I think she probably will be in trouble. It wasn't appropriate for her really to come to your house. Well, I think it was fine but Ofsted likely won't.

Other parent is a shit stirrer and likely pissed off that it appears teacher is favouring your dd (imo she's not).

I live in a village where several members of staff live nearby or walk their dogs past my house (on the school road). I think it's gives a lovely sense of community. Even if the teachers must get driven potty if our kids spot them out of the window, shout and wave at them! (I discourage it)

This is what other parent is saying.
That it’s not appropriate.
I thought it was a really nice thing for her to do.
Makes me feel like my child is cared for!

Nah. I wouldn't have thought so. It's an example of a teacher going above and beyond surely.

The teacher in my dd's Y1 class used to come round to a girl in the class's house regularly to get her to put shoes and tights on and come to school. Sounds crazy but the girl had sensory issues around clothes and her mum was struggling. The girl used to wear them fur the teacher though - so she used to come round on 'bad' days. I thought this was pretty good.

She won’t be in trouble! Ofsted will write something like “There is a genuine home-school partnership where teachers demonstrate they care about the welfare of the children by going above and beyond and parents respond positively and enthusiastically to that.”

And if they don’t take the story to the papers!

I work in a school. This is not an issue.

So glad that general consensus is that she won’t get into trouble.
That’s the last thing I’d want to happen.

Some parents spread the stupidest rumours/false truths.

She won’t be in “trouble”. If they’re sensible then it will be seen as a positive, building good relationships with parents thing. If they’re an idiot then she might get a mild rebuke about not blurring boundaries.

I've had a long career in teaching and think this was a lovely thing to do. It portrays the teacher and the school in a very caring light and Ofsted will give them credit for that.

How did she know where you lived? If she accessed your records without permission to find your address then yes, she could get in trouble I'm afraid. It's because of data protection. Your data is confidential, and shouldn't be used for anything outside their designated purpose.

So while a nice thing to do, you might have got her and the school into a whole hell of a lot of trouble. Data protection breaches can lead to fines as well.

Reception teachers did home visits when dd started.

Fucking hell is this what the world is coming to?

Teacher drops off comforter. Nice gesture but a bit of a non issue.

Yes we also had home visits.
So she knew where we lived without accessing records.
It’s quite a distinctive house on a main road! Not big and posh or anything! Just a quirky house on a main road!

Well I’ve dropped revision materials to parents when their kids have been off school, gone and rung doorbells to make sure that a kid made it to a gcse (oversleeping) etc. Must be a rubbish teacher..oh no, I’m not and neither is she. She cares and was able to help.

Fucking hell is this what the world is coming to?

Teacher drops off comforter. Nice gesture but a bit of a non issue.

Exactly.

Well I just considered it a nice gesture too.
Until other people started acting funny with me!
Just paranoid I’ve wrecked their whole ofsted inspection with my one comment!

Our local state school sent reception teachers for a home visit to each child before my daughter started. It was lovely!

The same teachers came to a party at our house later in the year. Also lovely!

I hope that things haven't changed that much in the last 10 years that this would now be considered "not best practice". It was actually GREAT. Reception was wonderful for all the kids- caring, kind, and creative!

I think the other parent is being mean. Sound sliek your DD has a lovely teacher!

When DS started at primary, the teacher did a home visit ... I think they do this at most schools. Do they do it at yours? If so, I would imagine her dropping something off on the way home wouldn't be an issue.