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?

You either have a guilty conscience or are paranoid. Either way you are definitely overthinking this. Your child got a certificate - be proud. There will be a valid reason why they did this.

My DCs school did this as it was ‘more personal’ than just giving it to the child.

It was also more exciting for the child to receive it in the post and it didn’t get lost between receiving it and hometime so parents could actually see it too.

They quickly realised it took too much time and instead started posting them out instead.

"You are a relentless bully. I do hope you aren't a teacher."

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

"please do share how this makes perfect sense"

Love 😆

I would guess she forgot to give your daughter her certificate and it could have been on the newsletter that your daughter got one and she didn’t want you complaining that your daughter hadn’t received hers! And here you are complaining because the teacher has gone out for her way to make sure that you and your daughter aren’t disappointed!! And we wonder why teachers are leaving in droves!! 😭

No teacher would go out of their way to hand deliver a certificate other than out of kindness. They have plenty other things to be doing. Was it a certificate that would normally be presented at an assembly or a class one? I'm sure she just wanted your child to have it as soon as possible.

Why would they be unsettled? Aren't you just putting it through the letterbox? How would they know who normally delivered it and that this time it was somebody else?

This is a random selection of quotes - do spit it out if you want to criticise me.

And we wonder why there's a shortage of teachers?

my point exactly- who is unsettled by someone putting something through the letterbox? And yet here we are…

Imagine doing something so outrageously FOUL, as to personally deliver a child's certificate... to their house! And post it through......... their letterbox! 😱

I think she did a kind thing but I’d be sad for my child that they didn’t get to receive it in front of the whole school in assembly etc.

I was thinking this - I live in a small market town and this would be the most banal everyday thing that it would go utterly unremarked upon. The idea that dropping something through somebody's letterbox is 'unprofessional' is a new one on me too. I've hand delivered letters unannounced many times in my 20 years as a solicitor- guess I'm not a professional either. Oh well.

Please take me back to another time when people using your letter box to deliver thoughtful gestures was considered kind and not 'invasive' and people going out of their way to do something nice weren't put under the microscope for going against the grain of a society who wants to stay at home, speak to no one and post their ridiculous and slightly paranoid thoughts on ananomous forums for thousands of strangers to read.

But you are out in public ...so precious feelings could be hurt by being seen ...anyone anyone anyone could SEE you 👀👁👀 😱

Because when you put the parish magazine through letterboxes 1. People know to expect it and therefore 2. They neither know nor care who you personally are.

When a known individual such as your child's teacher puts something through a letterbox unexpectedly this is a different scenario.

A teacher dropping a certificate off to a pupil on a Friday evening seems to be seen by some as equivalent to a visit from Dr Hannibal Lecter clutching cutlery and a good Chianti.

I am sincerely glad that I don't live in the head of anyone who would be bothered, upset or perturbed by this. It isn't normal to be so.

You have repeatedly taken the piss out of the OP in a humiliating and demeaning way. At that point, it's no longer just banter—it comes across as bullying. I hope you feel fulfilment in your endeavour.

It was probably only valid for this week, so she couldn’t wait until next week because it would be out of date and a new person would win it then.

Im in Ireland and this would be appreciated here. I have had teachers drop books etc to our home previously and all I ever thought was how nice they were, to be doing stuff out of hours and no thanks for it.

You are too much. Causing drama. Trying to get people to say the teacher is invasive. They are being kind, nice, trying to do a good thing. They know your kid v well and probably you are the parent to complain when the certificate doesn’t come home on the right day. So they take it to you to avoid drama. And you post nasty stuff about them online. Shame.

Wow. Can’t be arsed to read the full thread but there’s a host of reasons why she might have done this. Your child was awarded it then left it on her table. It was supposed to be given the next day but there’s a supply in and she didn’t want to risk the supply getting it wrong / forgetting. Etc etc. Trust me, in this heat I’m impressed the teacher went to the extra effort rather than being desperate to get home to a cold shower. As for having your address, we have access to all our children’s addresses via the school database.

teachers literally can’t do anything right, can we? A kind gesture is taken to be a big insult and making people feel uncomfortable? I give up.

The same MNers who never open the door is someone knocks.

Eh? It's a succession of quotes which is fairly obvious. Someone called you a relentless bully and said they hoped you didn't work in a school, I said you do work in a school apparently and it makes sense (as a direct response to the bullying point). You asked me to clarify and I explained how much workplace bullying I have seen in schools (a sector that is very well known for its workplace bullying).

I'm genuinely not sure how much clearer I can make it other than I was agreeing with the bullying point that another poster made and explained that bullying is fairly common between school staff.

As an aside, I think it's also interesting when I asked if you'd ever heard gossiping about parents in staffroom and you said staff often talk about "challenging" parents but never in a gossiping way. I mean, maybe I've only worked in awful schools but I just reiterated how many awful things I've heard in staffrooms. Teachers have a hard job. Most of them do act with the best intentions, but they do get things wrong and some are just unpleasant people (like all of society). I really think we need to stop all this "can't criticise them or they'll leave" nonsense. They have standards to uphold.

The teachers not psychic, she wouldn't have known the parent was doing this. What are teachers supposed to have psychic powers as well now? The teacher did a kind thing. The end.

I said I personally would be "a bit annoyed".