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?

Ok then, a better example...you are due to be presented with a long service certificate at work, which you would then take home. That's how it's always been done for other employees. But yours gets posted through your letterbox one evening by your boss instead. Wouldn't you think that strange and wonder why?

I think at this stage, the OP’s only option is to go into witness protection.

For fuck sake really ? . Are people so bloody precious that ‘someone walking past their window’ to the front door has made you so discomb-fucking-bobulated ?

I suggest you put yourself out of your comfort zone a bit via a bit of volunteer work - ideally in the real world of normal folk trying to feed and raise kids on a single minimum wage and paying rent .. then you may actually find out what in life is actually worth being ‘uncomfortable’ about !

What is it about MN and visitors even ones that just put something through the door ? Are you all continually getting jiggly with it in the front room with the curtains open or perhaps cooking up some crystal meth in the hallway ?
Over the years I’ve come to believe that I must live in a very strange world. I like my neighbours. They are kind and we help each other out when we can. We are rural so not attached to each others homes but the idea that should I see them approaching or infact anyone approaching it has never crossed my mind to do anything other than open the door. If I happen to be busy doing something and their reason for visiting is not convenient I do another weird thing. I speak to them with my words and say ‘ lovely to see you and would love a chat but I’m halfway through worming the dog/cat/child. Are you free in an hour to come back for a cuppa ? ‘

However if my child’s teacher had made the effort to come and give my child a certificate in her own time . I would definitely of invited her in for a glass of wine. Or cuppa. Would never cross my mind to ignore her. Just uncivil and really weird .

Teachers are damned if they do and damned if they don't. Perhaps she promised your child their certificate and forgot, perhaps she is just a nice person, perhaps the school is going to be shut the next day or she won't be present. Who knows? As you found this intrusive you should ask school why it couldnt have waited and like a pp said they can note that contact should only ever be formally made.

We had a lovely lady from guides visit our house to give dd1 her certificate and her badges. She knocked on the door rather than post them and I thanked her because she came out of her way to do it. Dd1 had been sad that she hadn't been able to attend the ceremony so this cheered her up.

Why would she come to your house like that? TO POST THE FUCKING CERTIFICATE!! THAT'S WHY! She wanted your Daughter not to miss out and get her certificate. Maybe she had a hospital appt the next day and realised she'd not given it to the supply teacher. There are so many reasons why, but you thought to go all suss of her.

She might have wanted to see where your child lives? Have you not heard of StreetView? It saves us stalkers so much money in petrol!

Or she'd have at least come in the dead of night and looked through the gap in your curtains with night vision goggles on. The reason you couldn't sleep last night? You think it was just the heat, well more the fool you, that warmth was the breath of the teacher as she crouched next to your bed watching you while you slept.

Seriously, THIS is why no-one wants to be a teacher and why they're leaving in droves. Because parents constantly are looking out for a reason to kick them. But in this case, kick them when they were DOING A NICE THING!!

Have a word with yourself and either get help for your anxiety or stop spending so much time with whatever Stepford mentality wives you're associating with.

Any communication? Knocking on your door at 7.30am to tell you about the severe weather warning closing the school (rather than a text)? Or are there purpose limitations to use of that data?

It was a nice thing to do, stop being weird and ridiculous.

This hasn’t happened.

This is a very aggressive post. Maybe you should get some help with your anger.

No, read the quote it's attached to. That person said that by providing an address it can be used for communication. My example is directly relevant.

How kind of them - obviously going the extra mile to make sure your children got their certificate. Maybe they weren’t going to see your child in the morning for whatever reason and didn’t want them to miss out. I’m sure whatever the reason it was well meant. You should be grateful they care.

Telling the OP to get help for anxiety when you clearly need help for your unhinged aggression is pretty funny

Maybe their teachers never.... forgot their certificates/found it stuck to the bottom of their laptop when they got home/has a hospital appt/could be arsed doing something nice. Just because it's never happened before doesn't mean it's wrong or there's anything suspicious, malicious or wrong about it. Poor poor teacher. You are determined to be suspicious about her despite so many saying it was a nice things to do in what are probably very boring normal circumstances of your child otherwise missing out. I really hope you aren't silly enough to complain to school about it.

Christ alive, poor teacher was doing something kind and thoughtful. A lovely, personal thought for OP’s child.
Now they’re being made out to be a stalky weirdo.

It's in progress. 😉

But didnt happen so irrelevant. Certificates can’t be sent by text

OP obviously has some shame around her home. But honestly teachers see all sorts of homes and all sorts of parents and families. Where you live won’t be a shock if they already k ow you and your child

Well, yes, any communication. If they want to go out in severe weather as in your example, there's no reason why they can't.

I mean, the GDPR law disagrees with you here.

The GDPR would not prevent school staff delivering things to parents' homes.

It's unusual, but it's not invasive.

I can only imagine that she knows of some reason why he wouldn't be getting it in assembly. Maybe she's not going to be in school the next day, and realised that she'd brought his certificate home.

I'm a teacher (retired) and I'd definitely be bemused and wonder why she'd brought it. But I wouldn't be paranoid or freaking out that she had the address. Until relatively recently when attendance registers went online, the address would be in the paper register next to their name.

Teacher could have rung beforehand, would take 30 seconds. Or waited until next assembly / class (arguably much more special for the child).

We'll have to agree to disagree re relevance. There's another poster now who has said that by giving the school your address you consent to any communication being delivered to your address (including knocking on the door), which is against GDPR principles, and therefore - I personally think - relevant.

Our primary school headteacher once dropped my son's coat off at our house on a Friday afternoon as he'd left it behind...in his office after being sent there for poor behaviour. Headteacher accepted a cuppa and took the opportunity for a chat about son's behaviour.

So i follow your reasoning but if they want to help more, let them.

surely the phone call would be an invasion of the op’s privacy…

Yes imagine the invasion of privacy of the teacher’s voice actually being emitted from the phone into the op’s personal space!!!