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?

My sons’ schools used to send congratulations postcards to our home address. We thought it was lovely and certainly didn’t start worrying about GDPR breaches. Children live receiving mail! 😂😂

Maybe she just remembered the address, e.g. because she knows someone else in the same road.

I’ve hand delivered a letter to a child’s address in the past. It was information that I knew the parents needed and the house was less than a minute deviation from my walk (plus it saved the cost of postage).

No GDPR rules broken, just a kind gesture.

Because she's a nice person who wants to recognise your child...she walked past your window to post it oh what a bitch...fuck me how dare she do something nice.

Here's a bet...in 8 years you are on here moaning that your child has been excluded and it really wasn't their fault...it was all the teachers, every single one of them had it in for her

In 20 years you are moaning that your daughter has been in and out of prison because other people made her do things.

I exaggerate and god I hope I'm wrong, but if you bring your child up to see kindness and consideration as a personal affront then she is in for a shit life

You're being absolutely ridiculous, OP.

I was just thinking this. MN can be pretty mad anyway but it's definitely been madder this week, and this may well be the maddest of the lot. You really cannot win with some people.

The teacher didn’t ’come to the house’. They posted something through the door.

Overreacting much?

When I send out congratulations postcards to students in my classes, I look up the address to write it on.
I hope those parents aren't paranoid. They always seem to be received well.

And - depending on each child - quite a lot of very personal information! Quite why anyone would get paranoid about a child's teacher knowing their address is beyond me.

I haven't RTFT - has anyone brought up "GDPR breach" yet?

Yep!

Oh yes 😄

My son’s teacher did this once, he’d forgotten to bring home my Mother’s Day card. Teacher realised and brought it round on the Saturday to make sure I had it for the Sunday.
I didn’t think anything of it to be honest! Except what a lovely thing for her to do!

No

It’s not a bloody GDPR breach 🙄
What is wrong with some people?!

That's so thoughtful! How kind.

I don't know. It's mad.

How do we find student adresses? Well there is this magical futuristic portal in schools called Arbor...

Hmm, I think it could be a data protection breach. I wouldn't necessarily expect a class teacher to require / have access to pupils' home addresses

It is not a data breach. They know details about the children in their class. The address is only one thing. I know who is in care, or that there's a court order, or who has asylum status, religion and similar. I can see the parents/carers phone numbers.
It's fine.

I have access to the home addresses of every student in the school. We all do.

I'm not in the habit of popping round (or being nice!), mind you.

It can be quite easy to find an address. As a former teacher if I needed to call home (which we were expected to do in secondary for things like behaviour or any concerns) then the page that would bring up contact numbers did have addresses on it too.

Personally it sounds like she dropped it off as thought the assembly would be cancelled and wanted to ensure it was received.

If that worried a message could be sent saying thanks for dropping off the certificate, just wondered if this means she won't be celebrated at school in assembly like her friends

Nope, I’m one of the posters on mn with normal boundaries and good manners. I employ multiple people in many roles. I can obviously look up their home addresses and pop by, but I wouldn’t. Why? Because I respect their privacy.

Well no, it not usual (other than reception home visits). But it does happen occasionally for unusual circumstances (a heatwave that closes down schools being one).

During Covid our primary school reports came out during a period where only children of key workers were attending, so the teachers and TAs hand delivered them to our houses.

You’re creating a problem where one does not exist.

Are you quite well? Of course we have access to their home details.

Also their bank details and their knicker drawers. (Only one of these is true)

The outside of the house, and the postbox, isn't private. Otherwise the Postie, Amazon and DPD would be constantly breaching your privacy.