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?

What a fab teacher! Your child is lucky to have them 😁

You on the other hand, need to give your head a wobble.

The poster I was replying to said she'd picked up pupils and it wasn't a big deal, which very much made it sound like an ad hoc arrangement in her own car.

Yes I do

You clearly haven't seen Home Alone, which I can recommend to the OP if she wants ideas for how to deter these selfish, unthinking, unprofessional bastards from posting things through her letterbox in future.

😆

I’m a bit taken aback by the responses to this. I’m a teacher and I think I’d be called in for a meeting if I went to a child’s house for this kind of reason? Maybe my school is uptight? While I can see the children’s addresses, I would imagine a parent would feel a bit taken aback if I even said “You live down x Avenue right”, let alone go there? Finding the pile on quite strange!

This thread is very much the epitome of “this is why we can’t have nice things”. Someone does something small, to be nice, and too many people are looking for some ulterior motive. Or banging on about GDPR. Or waiting to take offence.

God forbid a teacher has gone out of her way to ensure your child feels proud of their achievements. Remember when they were starting nursery and the teachers did home visits?
This teacher was doing something nice and probably wanted your child to have their certificate for the morning. There’s nothing sinister about it. She looks after your child every day. In fact, she may only just live around the corner!
Please don’t make this into something it isn’t!

I know it seems trivial, but it could for the teacher, if it is seen by others as favouritism or even worse, potentially the emergence of grooming behaviours. I know this sounds extreme but we know this happens and starts off small..

Not saying this is the case at all and I’m sure intentions were of kindness. Probably never crossed their mind but staff so have a responsibility to protect themselves from potential allegations.

If it was for nosey purposes she could have just google mapped it... the way I do. Must have been out of kindness... the bitch

And now we have potential grooming 🤦‍♀️
I honestly don’t know how some people get through the day.

I think there are different perspectives. If I were the parent in the scenario I would think it was nice of the teacher and would not feel she had overstepped boundaries.

Every year I have to do Safeguarding and Child Protection courses and GDPR. This is advanced because of my pastoral role.
There is no risk to the teacher, or family member by posting a certificate through the letterbox. No grooming could ever be construed.
You are right. Those points are extreme.

Oh for gods sake. Are you usually this anxious/paranoid?! Cos you need to seek some help. She got your address off the school system which she’s allowed to do and went out her way to hand deliver a certificate so your child felt a sense of achievement and you are going down all sorts of dark rabbit holes. It’s not healthy. Could be many reasons why it was hand delivered. Regardless of the reason they have gone above and beyond to ensure your child got his certificate so he could proudly share it with his parents

Well honestly that’s just a stupid thing to say isn’t it!

They are on the school system.

Christ, I was a teacher for 15 years and have delivered wellies to a child home at the end of half term when I realised they have been forgotten so they child isn’t without them if they go for a walk in the rain! Shoot me!

Sounds like it got forgotten or something and she's just being nice to your child.
She didn't go in your house - she posted something through the door. I don't see how that's invasive or crossing boundaries when she's just trying to do a nice thing.

You're completely right. A teacher visiting a child's home without prior arrangement like this means no record of their visit exists, nobody can corroborate anything, and worst case scenario it could look like an attempt to make private, unsupervised contact with a child.

Anybody who disagrees with that and would rather bang on about poor teachers who leave the profession because of posts like this, don't actually give a shit about teachers.

This is too much, OP. It’s not that deep. Maybe your child asked to not have it given in front of everyone - your child will be different when not with you.

and honestly, those early certificates are meaningless and instil the expectation of reward and praise for little to no conscious effort. Always reminded me of the competitions I used to invent for kids’ parties when they’d raced through the activities I’d planned - ‘best use of head wiggling to fast music’….

I haven't read beyond the first few pages but I work in a school in a Leadership role and can confirm that all school staff can access parents contact details, including the child's home address as they are visible on our system. That's entirely normal.

This week we have not had an Assembly as it was too hot in the hall, and there were only half the usual number of kids in anyway. So the most likely explanation is that there was no assembly, or the usual prize-giving didn't happen for some reason, and the teacher didn't want your child to miss out on getting her certificate. It may well be that she lives nearby and was passing anyway.

Our staff have done similar for children who have missed events due to being off poorly, or because the child forgot to take something home.

How thoughtful of her...
I would be very grateful to her if it was me. My child would be very happy if that happened to her.

How did the teacher know beforehand however that when they arrived at the house, they would have no contact with anybody and would be able to just put it through the letterbox? How did they know that their pupil wouldn't be playing in the front garden, and that they wouldn't have an unsupervised interaction with them?

You need refreshing on your training by the sounds of it.

Sense at last!

A teacher visiting a child's home without prior arrangement like this means no record of their visit exists, nobody can corroborate anything, and worst case scenario it could look like an attempt to make private, unsupervised contact with a child.

She turned up, put a certificate through the letterbox, left. What's to corroborate? And it could only be unsupervised contact if the primary school aged kid had been left home alone, in fact it would be far easier for a teacher to have unsupervised contact at school. So the only logical conclusion is that the OP must pull her child out of school immediately, keep her at home, and definitely away from letterboxes.