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?

if my long service certificate was usually handed out at Friday assembly, but assemblies were cancelled as my workplace was experiencing a heatwave, and there was a chance that i wouldn’t be at work tomorrow because half the rest of my colleagues weren’t in today, and my boss keeps meticulous notes of who hasn’t yet got a certificate with only four weeks of work left, and I’m six years old, yeah in those circumstances I’d be fine with my boss hand delivering my long service certificate to my home

I’m not sure what you thought the teacher was going to do? Why is it upsetting you so much?
Id be chuffed if my daughter’s teacher took the time out to make sure my child got her certificate.

Sure. Maybe we can all take the piss out of the imagined scenario of the OP shitting herself in abject horror at a phone call.

Or perhaps we could realise that there's literally no reason a teacher couldn't spend 30 seconds saying 'hi, I have your son's certificate here, would you like me to drop it in your letterbox or wait and give it in class?'

The two scenarios are obviously different and one is normal and respectful, the other is unusual and not everyone thinks it is "kind".

Very true.

tbh I would think it very odd for someone to call me and ask if they could put something in my letterbox - just do it, it’s really not a problem. I would expect a call if they were planning to visit me in my home.
i don’t think the certificate through the letterbox is in any way disrespectful.

Everyone seems to think its lovely which in all fairness it may well be but
I think it's an overstep of boundaries without warning or consent. I wouldn't have liked it.

You would expect a warning that something was being put through the letterbox?
why would you need a warning?
do you feel the same way about junk mail? Free newspapers? Pizza vouchers?

Oh no! We have enough trouble recruiting them

Right, but clearly some people do care.

It's hot, the windows are open, on our quiet road you can hear neighbours talking inside their homes if all the windows are open. All our neighbours are friends, and so, like OP, we potter out into the front gardens in PJs watering the garden, etc etc. Some people wouldn't care if their child's teacher came past and posted a certificate in the evening, others would.

Don’t believe op said she was in her PJs.

Some of us change into our pjs and potter! Oh my goodness, there is no way of predicting which families would be OK with this and which wouldn't, and which will be dishevelled and embarrassed on the front lawn and which wouldn't (or wouldn't care).

Edit to add: this is exactly why professionals shouldn't be "kind" and overstep in these ways actually. At 8pm yesterday we'd had an awful day with our disabled kids, extremely upset by the heat, I was exhausted after running around all day after them in 35 degrees (they didn't stop running all day). I was sweating and braless watering my plants in early evening yesterday, and my husband had taken over dealing with the (still screaming audibly) kids after work. If their teacher posted something non essential through our letterbox without warning rather than waiting (so exactly same circumstances as OP) I would have been a bit annoyed.

Christmas must be horrific. Imagine if the neighbours dropped a card in without calling ahead.

Why would you be on the front lawn if you didn’t want anyone to see you? You’d be inside. The teacher wouldn’t see you.

This

I am close friends with my neighbours. I am not close friends with the professionals in my life, who I have a professional relationship with.

but this wasn’t the scenario! I believe op was dressed in daywear, teacher did not enter house, did not comment on op’s garden or attire or anything…so why this huge fuss about overstepping boundaries.
Now if teacher turned up unannounced, demanded access to home where op was sitting in pants and a greying bra (it is quite hot), swigging castlemaine 4X from a can with a fag hanging out of her mouth and then shared this picture of domestic bliss with the entire staff room the following day then OP might have a point re overstepping boundaries.

And all their relatives? And guests? And anyone who might drop by to do some work? Or do they call ahead?

Imagine you would be forced to move house. Totally outrageous.

Well I don't see those people again

How would a teacher predict what scenario it would be? And how the family will take it?

Don’t you? People only call once, never to be seen again? What if they call a plumber who knows you from down the shops? Or a brother gets a new girlfriend who also does your hair? You haven’t thought this through. It’s a minefield.

Leave the country. New identity. The only thing for it.

Well I think they all have to call ahead.

So to be clear. Anyone who visits your neighbours and might see you in a dishevelled state in your front garden should call ahead so they can come round and tell you to go inside? Or should they call you?

It's amazing how much GDPR is brought up on this site, mostly by people who have no idea what it is.

Based on what a lot of people think, the postman is committing a GDPR breach every time the post a letter through your door 😁