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?

The only basis under GDPR in which this would be ok, would be if the parent has given prior consent to having their data used for this specific purpose.

Are you quite sure that at your school, parents are explicitly asked to give consent to unarranged home visits to drop off non urgent documents that could be given in school instead?

Would you mind sharing the wording in the policy? I'm genuinely interested in how a school would approach the wording.

There are some AIBU threads where the OP gets a bit shredded, but they should be kept to OPs who have very clearly done something completely unreasonable. Calling someone a twat etc isn't really great for an issue where OP has hurt no one.

That said, we're all adults here (I hope) and most of what has been said is within Mumsnet guidelines, is not grossly offensive, it's not illegal to call someone a twat (nor should it be!). It's just been so ... silly and not nice. It's also very eyeroll inducing how much people can mock a very calm and mild OP but in the same breath lament how upset teachers must be about this. Are teachers really that sensitive? Are they really above even people asking questions about their actions? It reminds me so much of that clap for the NHS / "our nurses are heroes" / "not all superheroes wear capes" / nurse filming herself crying in a car because the supermarket had empty shelves in the pandemic stuff

People really do put teachers up on a pedestal. I guarantee if I posted in AIBU that as a parent I'd posted a card through a teacher's letterbox and they weren't happy as a result, I'd be torn to shreds for crossing boundaries, not respecting their privacy and so on. It's a strange flow of power that only goes one way as far as many are concerned

I don’t think it’s really possible to police a thread to determine if the op has done something completely unreasonable or not. Opinions will always differ.
imo - the op’s post about boundaries being crossed is an overreaction- some posters agree, some don’t and some posters will be quite blunt. There will also be some exaggerated responses too. Tis the nature of the beast. Chat is usually more civilised.
ime teachers are not that sensitive, but there is quite a lot of teacher bashing on mumsnet hence the multiple damned. If you do, damned if you don’t comments.

FFS. It wasn’t a home visit. T(e teacher put it through the letter box and left. Exactly as would have happened if a postie had done it. So glad I’ve retired.

And then we all act surprised when it comes out a teacher has done something unethical or immoral or gets struck off. We should treat them like the fallible humans they are.

People putting teachers on a pedestal…not my experience on mumsnet.
btw I’m not a teacher.

I mean, I’d be ok with it but I lives in a rural area where the postie asked me about the party I’d been to because he saw my car had been left there overnight…
But a teacher has a legitimate reason to know a pupil’s address, and delivering by hand posting is no different in terms of use of that information. Parents wouldn’t have legitimate access to a teacher’s address so it’s different.

Yeah, that's fine. I'm not policing, but if we someone calls someone else a twat, what they have said is also open for scrutiny.

I see very little teacher "bashing" personally and my experience is many teachers are as sensitive as they are being portrayed on this thread (by people on their own side!).

Whether you take umbrage to the word visit or not is irrelevant. The point still remains that the address was accessed not in accordance with GDPR.

I think it's a good job you have retired from being able to access pupil data tbh.

I think we should teachers as we treat anyone else with courtesy and respect. We are all fallible.

Absolutely hard agree. Not sure why this thread has got so many shitty comments to OP and so many silly "no wonder teachers are leaving, poor things" comments then.

I think as individuals there are always topics which pique our interest and therefore remember. For me it’s charity shop bashing - same comments every single time.

I don't find this odd enough to be sinister, but it would be odd enough to bug me for the rest of my life!

You'll have to just ask on Monday. "That was a first, having a teacher turn up at my front door at 8pm! How come it couldn't wait til Friday?"

I imagine she thought the school might be closed on Friday. I was desperately hoping all of last week that our school might close....

Nonsense. Teachers have the data I order to contact parents/pupils. That’s what this was used for. That the teacher shoved it through the letterbox without interrupting the OP rather than the postie doing it is irrelevant.
And I don’t appreciate the personal attack suggesting I wasn’t a suitable person to be a teacher for 35 years. I won’t report it because people need to see how nasty you are being.

She’s not going to ask. This is AIBU

Because the teacher isn’t being treated with courtesy and respect, is she? It’s being suggested she has dubious motives and is breaching GDPR (she isn’t)

As I said upthread it’s AIBU - it’s the nature of the beast. If you want compassion, sympathy, empathy, a hand hold…you are unlikely to find it here.

The main shitty comments are coming from the poster who seems to believe they are the world’s foremost expert in GDPR and everyone else is incompetent/ badly trained/ thankfully no longer a teacher. Delete as applicable.

Accessing the address in order to send something home is completely in line with most data protection policies (we often send home praise postcards etc). The hand delivery is certainly odd, though.

Why is it odd? It could be a 2 minute deviation from her homeward journey. It saves postage and gets it to the pupil sooner.

It's been suggested there is a remote possibility she could have dubious motives and many of us genuinely believe she has breached GDPR.

Do no teachers have dubious motives ever? Should that never be suggested?

If someone thinks there has been a GDPR breach (as several teachers / ex teachers on the thread, including myself think), should they not say in case it is disrespectful?

I think that would be a very dangerous version of respect, but appears to be common.

If only there were some way to find out why the teacher hand-delivered it. I guess it’s going to remain a mystery.

Ok, but the poor teacher posters need to understand they're playing by the same rules then!

Jesus Christ!! Move house immediately