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?

I totally agree with you, it feels really odd. What a strange thing to do. Maybe she has some other concerns. She was checking out where your child lives. It would make me feel uncomfortable too all of those posters that saying chill out don’t be silly. I think I would ask her. I think I would ask her why she dropped it off and thank her for dropping it off but ask her why she went for trouble of finding out your address and dropping it off. I would really hate that if teachers from my kids school turned out while I was out in my garden. Unless it was an emergency or they had called prior.

I'd just ask her 🤷‍♀️

Teachers these days cannot win. They go the extra mile - parents are confused/freaked out. They forget to hand out the certificate - parents are enraged. I despair.

Which is why it would be interesting to have the reason the teacher acted in this way. And yet the OP, who believes boundaries were crossed and felt uncomfortable by the actions of this teacher, is not going to raise it with the school. Weird, no?

I think it’s a breach of privacy. Why not just ask you to pick it up? Was teacher trying to find out info on you by visiting home?

I ask because years ago when my child was young a teacher turned up unannounced to our home to drop off work books. This teacher considered my child a naughty child. I kept reusing neurodivergence and was dismissed / they preferred to keep him labelled as naughty. There was no reason for her to visit unannounced and o think she just wanted to check us out. Years later my child was diagnosed with autism. So from my experience- possibly an ulterior motive

op had the opportunity to ask and yet did not…

Assume you raised this unexpected visit with the school at the time?

Why didn’t you just open the door and speak to her??? You watched her come to your door and post something but you didn’t bother to open it and ask??

So? Maybe she's not very confident? Maybe she wants to preserve the relationship with the school? (It's been suggested on here that teachers quit the profession because parents ask questions, so clearly some of them are quite sensitive). Maybe it's because on the tiny chance there was some kind if ulterior motive, the teacher is not going to turn around and say "oh yeah, I just wanted to check your house out because I was nosy / I have malicious intentions / whatever".

New to mumsnet? Open the door? Have you taken leave of your senses?

email is always an option.

From the range of responses, there is clearly a huge variance in the suitability of a child's teacher turning up unannounced depending on where you live.

There have been ocassions referenced when it was acceptable and decided ahead of time with other school professionals but this doesn't fit that criteria. Op has not said her child was not off sick, the teacher wasn't out the next day and it is not a usual occurrence in her area. People are now accusing her of it being a safe guarding visit because of what happens in their area.

In my area, this would not be acceptable, this is an intrusion of privacy. Yes, all schools have access to the address but no one visits or drops things home. Even a school liaison would phone before hand.

Only if it's only confidence and not for the other two reasons.

This is a joke right?
You don’t believe this, do you? Do you?
It’s insanity

Agree. Even if it was a safeguarding visit it would have been handled very differently. They wouldn't get a class teacher to make an excuse to post something and not tell OP afterwards what their concerns were (unless they had seriously exceptional circumstances like they reasonably thought the family might flee the country).

op could email the head and ask what is going on, is this standard practice and mentions that she felt it was an overstepping of boundaries.
why is this not an option?

Nonsense. I’ve always been able to access children’s addresses, and using it to deliver a school document is 100% using it for the right purposes.

Not to mention she's been called paranoid, nasty, a twat and everything in-between, all because she calmly posted that it made her feel uncomfortable. I wouldn't be surprised if she's been second guessing herself and that's another reason she's left it.

It is a joke. 😀

It’s not a thing. Don't be silly.

Deliver by hand? Honestly, where do you live where teachers hand deliver documents to children's homes?

If she had an ulterior motive - the certificate was her cover story - you will get nothing from the teacher - I would speak to the Head because regardless of the motive there is a GDPR training issue at the school and that will not be addressed by speaking to the teacher.

really?
she must be new to mumsnet then.
surely its well known that if you post on AIBU - you can get your arse handed to you.

i already mentioned that emailing the head is always an option.

whenever I had a concern re school I always emailed as it’s then easier for head or teacher to follow up on the points raised.