Teacher hand delivered certificate usually given out in class.

[howmanycorners]

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?

Gosh, another OP with no posting history and no life, the hot weather certainly brings them out.

It probably just felt weird having a teacher call to your home especially if you've never had this before. I found it strange when teachers would drop things here for my kids as I never had a teacher calling when I was growing up, teachers were always people of high authority we would view them similar to the gardai and would raise an eye when calling to a home. Nowadays it's all very informal and very casual.

What the hell are you on about? You need to step away from the conspiracy theory content online.

Ooh interesting. Is it just for gossip or is there a grand plan?

Did you see her or speak to her? Did DC?

Maybe she was dropping it in incase you weren't sending the kids in today? Many parents country wide weren't due to time weather?

I do kind of agree with you though @howmanycorners it does feel a little bit "boundary crossing" although I cannot articulate exactly why?

Is she a good teacher? Does your DC like her?

It’s a joke.

Oft. I step away from MN for a few years and it appears things have changed. Given you’re one a quite a few people who took my post to be serious, then this is on me I guess

How is posting something through the door crossing a boundary?
the teacher did not invite themselves over for a meal.

I’m sure there was a reason. Maybe just ask next time you see her? My lb reception teacher hand delivered all the children “letters from santa” at Christmas which was so lovely. We were never informed they would be accessing our addresses etc but it didn’t bother me as I know they have them details anyway.

How do you think! I have access to the addresses and parent phone numbers of all the children in my class as I’m their teacher.

To be fair, you wrote it so seriously that I thought you meant it too! 😂I was about to ask my DP teacher if he'd ever heard of knockering a parent! 😂

Some odd replies on here, people seem to be ganging up on you to have a go, probably addled by the heat!

I think it’s extremely weird. Part of getting a certificate is being congratulated in assembly and your friends clapping. Also, if there is no assembly why wouldn’t she give it to your DD in class? Also, it’s probably a GDPR breach - using your data for a purpose other than what you’ve signed up for. Your DC’s teacher shouldn’t know your address.

How did she get their address? Why did she feel the need to come over for something that could (seemingly) be done in school the next day?

I expect it's something along the lines of the teacher promising the child they would have the certificate that day and forgetting, so they popped it in when they remembered but the bothering to dig out the address in the first place would hit my radar. It just feels a little inappropriate.

I am a lifelong Londoner though so naturally suspicious of everyone and unfriendly to boot.

Did you not have a home visitor when they started reception??? OP I think you needed to discuss anxiety with someone

The purpose of knockering was initially quite noble, not grand plan exactly, but certainly for the greater good iykwim. Unfortunately it has leaned gossip in recent years

Fuck me, teachers can’t win. A kid doesn’t get a certificate and we are out of order, she tries to be kind and you assume there’s something untoward. When I give merits I click a child’s name and the address automatically appears, in the past I’ve noticed students have forgotten things and if they are on my way home and I think they might need it I will drop it in, but you know what, from now on I won’t bother they can manage without because I don’t want to risk being moaned about online for doing one of the many things I’m not paid for but do because I care.

I'm not the OP but my borough doesn't do home visits. It's not a thing here.

And a home visit in reception is planned?

We care about the children.

No, it's not a GDPR breach. What nonsense.

Yes, I think so.

Bloody hell @LawrieForShepherdsBoy you had me with that. So much so I was willing to get a post deleted for personal abuse.
What a relief!

As if you have a choice??

So because i handed over my address because i legally had to to get a bank account, send my child to school, get a job, a passport, a driving licence … it’s reasonable to expect anybody who’s able to see my address through the course of their work in providing those services to me to turn up at my door??? Of course it isn’t!

You can’t enrol a child in school without giving out your address, giving it out isn’t some kind of tacit permission for people to come to your door, it’s something that you cannot avoid doing in the course of accessing a very basic service!

Not worried about the teacher dropping off a certificate — however this is not the reason.

This will freak you out - on the electronic registration system, you don't need to "dig" anything out. All the student details are on there. Including parents/carers phone numbers!

What a lovely thing for the teacher to do, my child has had thank you letters and well done postcards delivered to the house and I think its such a lovely thoughtful thing to do. Most teachers actually really love the kids they work with and they must have assumed your child would have appreciated it. This is a really odd reaction to it.

So what is it about you or your family that makes you think a teacher might go out of their way in their own time to spy on you?