Teacher hand delivered certificate usually given out in class.

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I don’t know what to make of this, dc is in primary school and every week someone gets a certificate.
Suddenly I saw my child’s teacher walk past the lounge window at about 8 pm and post a certificate through the door.
Aibu to find it a bit strange and wonder why she did this having had to look up our address and purposely drive to our house when all certificates are handed out in school and she would see my child in the morning?

I don't know why so many people are saying the teacher is really kind. I think it's a very odd thing to do unless she genuinely thought the assembly was going to be cancelled!! I wouldn't be happy if one of my kid's teachers had done this without a very good reason

Indeed. Nobody complained during Covid when teachers and other school staff were out hand delivering work, food, etc.

Or DID they...?

Imagine that! A Christmas card through a letter box!
Log it with 101 😉

Probably because, as a teacher, they understand that these things may seem insignificant to an adult but can mean an awful lot to a child.

Its not the same

At 8 oclock last night i was drooling on my sofa , not delivering certificate

send an emsil saying thank you so much for going above and beyond xxxx really appreciated the certificate

They should show this thread to trainee teachers. A ‘This is what you will be dealing with’ type thing.

What's intrusive about it? She posted something through the letter box, that is it's purpose.

Why wouldn't you be happy if your child's teacher thoughtfully brought round a certificate? I can guarantee you that she did it because it was either missed being given to the child that day OR there was a reason it couldn't be given the next day.

Teachers are punished for the stupidest shit it wouldnt surprise me if she was just trying to avoid some kind of overblown consequence for not handing it out. And now she's damned if she does or doesn\t because now you're whining about it on mumsnet. parents like you are so annoying im so glad my school doesnt make us interact with you

Nuts, isn't it. I think it's a case of where the first few replies happen to go a particular way and then it's just a pile on. It's not the OP who needs to get a life, it's the teacher by the sounds of it

They can’t do right for wrong can they?!

No doubt if OP’s child got it late, she’d also be kicking off

I was teaching in an international school and lived in the same compound as a student.
I jokingly said to him that he could drop his homework off at my flat. He didn’t realise it was a joke. I’ve never done that again.

When I was teaching, a child once sneaked his ‘cuddly’ into his book bag and brought it to school. Of course he lost it (because he was 4 and couldn’t resist getting it out to show his friends 😏) and was distraught at the end of the day when he went to his mum.

His mum came to apologise for him bringing it in and said if I saw it after school could I put it on one side and he could have it back tomorrow. I hunted the classroom and found it…and dropped it round to them on my way home. Because I knew he’d be upset that evening without it and because I cared about him. No other reason.

His mum thanked me profusely and sent him in with some flowers for me the next day. Which of course she didn’t have to do but it does show that not everyone treats a teacher’s kindness with cynicism and suspicion!

Really? For caring about her pupil's feelings enough to go above and beyond? Frankly op owes her a massive thank you for being so fabulous. I bet the child was happy to have it.

Ha ha, please be assured I was joking. I was very grateful to the teacher for bringing the coat round!

Three teachers at my kids schools actually live on our road. I kind of expect them to avert their eyes when driving or walking past in case they invade my kids privacy by accidentally catching sight of them outside school hours. 😆

How is putting something through a letterbox an invasion of someone’s privacy?

Jesus. Fucking. Christ.

And, in the words of Forrest Gump, that's all I have to say about that.

Imagine what these people would do if they received an unsolicited takeaway flyer - I suspect the police may be involved!

My child’s Support Assistant forgot to bring a gift for her birthday. She dropped it round that night. We invited her in for a cuppa and a piece of birthday cake. It was a lovely thing for her to do.

Quite

Making the choice to use this information to hand deliver something that could wait can be construed as odd though?

Like I said in my earlier posts I'm sure there was a good reason (was teacher expecting child to be off today due to heat? Did she promise the certificate that day and forget so decided to pop it on when she remembered?). I personally don't think it was nefarious or sinister but can understand why someone could feel uncomfortable about it, even if I cannot articulate exactly why.

Usually with these weekly type certificates in primary school the recipient doesn't know it's their turn (and that's all it is, a turn) until they get given it. So it would have made no difference whatsoever to the child.

In actual fact, if this had happened to my ND child with her knowing that it wasn't the norm, that they were normally given out at school, it would have likely caused a lot of confusion and questions on her part for me to then deal with.

Or the parish magazine, a free newspaper, a voucher for domino’s….
imagine if they were all delivered on the same day day? Probably need therapy.

Nonsense, it obviously would have been a lovely surprise to get it if they hadn't been expecting it. Why do people have to deliberately try to find bad in good things.

Might be time for the military at that point.