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?

It wouldn't bother me too much. However our school is in the village we live in. Half the teaching and support staff live here so I wouldn't bat an eyelid. If we were out of village or in an urban town then when I'd probably be confused. I wouldn't think it's an invasion of our privacy though.

Yeah, you're right, there is absolutely no difference between a plumber you might see around seeing you looking shit and stressed and overhearing your conversations and your child's class teacher.

It actually doesn't matter though, professionalism should be the same regardless of the fact some people wouldn't care, or that how you're dressed doesn't really matter. That's what we should be able to expect from professionals.

That sounds quite ominous, actually. Are they all buried in your cellar?

i can’t imagine if you are putting something in a letterbox you give it much thought.
i deliver our local parish magazine. I neither phone ahead to warn householder of this impending event, not ask for permission nor wonder if I am overstepping boundaries. Just put it through the letterbox.

You're not replying to the right person here, I don't think.

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It’s understandably tricky to tell the ‘taking the piss’ from the ‘batshit’

Ok, so you've constructed a scenario in which you understand exactly why something has been done, which is fine.

The OP DOESN'T know why this happened, which is why she posted. We don't know that it was due to the heatwave.

Because, shocking as it may sound, teachers actually DO care about their students. The mum had zero interest in how or where you live. She has zero interest in you.

Her interest, clearly, lay in doing something nice for her student.

I once took a clear but very disadvantaged child his homework at home when he was off sick. He was doing really well and I wanted to show him that I believed in him. No snooping or weirdness. Just a good kid who liked being appreciated.

Thank god his parents weren't as determined to see the negative in positive act.

Yeah, they're interred alongside all the poor, beleaguered teachers who immediately resigned from their profession weeping because some posters on Mumsnet said this one teacher was "unusual" and "overstepped a boundary".

I would guess she already knows where you live due to something like emergency contact forms
lives nearby or was in the area..

You got me bang to rights. I am the teacher in this very scenario!

People expect parish magazines and free newspapers and the like through their letterbox though. They will have grown up seeing similar come through their family letterbox and understand that it's a norm. They can read it or put it in the recycling but either way it's not going to be a surprise that leaves them wondering WHY it arrived.

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Tbh it might be a surprise as I am currently covering the round for someone who is unwell. So people may well be feeling unsettled by this temporary change that has not been communicated.

Mumsnet, where half the posters would like a drawbridge and a shark filled moat, to deter the most innocent of callers.

Apparently she works in a school. I mean, in some aspects makes perfect sense 😬...

So weird how posters who have literally said things like "I wouldn't have liked it" or "intrusive" / "overstepped" have been laughed at in really unpleasant, hyperbolic ways and somehow it's simultaneously suggested that teachers are so precious and lack such resilience that any mild criticism of a single act of a single teacher will get them all leaving the job. It's almost like teachers are above any kind of criticism, or even just questioning.

I think my kids teacher did this once. I thanked her. She said no bother I was passing anyway.

This is such an OTT reaction op.

Why are you so worried about it?!

She didn't knock. She didn't expect to come in.

She dropped a nice thing for your child through your door.

Baffling response.

I work in a school and it does seem unusual. If it's a run of the mill certificate it should have been given out in the next assembly. It is probably that she's just very kind and driving past but not many teachers have time to do this. There is also the issue of safety, if you opened the door and there was an altercation or any kind of he said she said this is why all home visits have to have 2 people present. Although I am aware that is highly unlikely in this scenario. Have your children got poor attendance? Is there a reason your paranoid about it or think why they would be checking up on you?

no apparently about it.
please do share how this makes perfect sense…

Guilty of taking the piss..but I’m not a bully.
do report to mumsnet if you feel I am a nasty bully.

I've worked in several different industries, including education and some of the most unpleasant people I've met are educators. Schools are very well known for bullying problems (as is the NHS), one of the real reasons that teachers leave.

When I was a new professional the things I heard in staffroom were just awful, about parents, children, other teachers (who then got signed off with stress and who I saw crying quite a lot). I have a lot of sad memories from working in several schools.

am not clear what this has to do with my posts?