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?

My son's Grade 1 teacher once brought my son's winter coat that we'd been looking for for days round to our house because she had come across it hung up in the wrong place at school and thought he would need it over the weekend. Naturally I put in a complaint and got her fired because that was really overstepping.

Very unlikely to be deemed a GDPR breach. A GDPR issue would be more likely if the teacher accessed or used the address for a personal reason unrelated to their job, or contrary to school policy.

Does anyone remember when teachers were just seen as members of the community, and not threat porn for paranoid parents? In OP's world, no kind deed goes unpunished it seems.

@howmanycorners it’s likely that she told (promised) your DC at school she would be giving him his certificate that day but it slipped her mind and she felt awfully bad about it. So, she’d thought she’d pop it through the door, so at least your DC knew that she did care and she’d just forgotten.

I completely agree. Please take a good look at yourself op, it is really disappointing to see such an appalling attitude towards an act of kindness.

😂 funny!

Don’t worry OP, if you complain no-one at the school will go out of their way to do anything for you again. Win win.

I can assure everyone that posting relevant documents to a child's home (either by writing the address on an envelope and giving it to the office to post OR by hand delivering it, which has happened for various reasons on many occasions for many children UK-wide) is NOT a "GDPR breach".

The difference being that amazon, Royal Mail, and DPD have a legitimate and expected reason for being outside your residence while your child’s teacher really doesn’t.

I pity the poor teachers having to deal with parents who are just looking to catch them out in some way. I despair.

The teacher absolutely did, they hand delivered a certificate for the child. Do please stop spouting such ridiculous nonsense.

She’s gonna abduct your kid

Me too.

Oh dear god.
She was just doing something kind.

Sorry but you are being completely ridiculous. It sounds like a kind gesture from a teacher. If she read this she would probably wonder why she bothered

Is it paranoia? Hatred of teachers? Fear of people being at your front door?

And how did she breach her privacy,..she put the fucking thing through the letter box. If the op didn't want things delivered to the door don't have a letter box....

Such a weird worldview. Can’t imagine being that precious about unexpected callers…
Also, the teacher’s reason was legitimate. She’s the teacher and was dropping something in to the “residence” (lol).

I expect the neighbours along our road - some of whose houses I've never been in during the 10 years we've lived here - are incandescent with rage when I pop a Christmas card through their doors. They must be absolutely seething when they pop one through mine.

Goodness knows what it is!

See I think you are joking, but reading some of the MN's posts, I can't be 100%

I work in Early years and occasionally have delivered forgotten mothers/father’s day cards on my way home. I would pop them in the letterbox-mainly those at the end of drives…
I never thought i was being too presumptuous, didn't want the parents to miss out on having the card on the day.
Sometimes theres no ulterior motive, just someone trying to be kind

So the teacher did a kind thing. But you don't want her walking up your path because your door was open and you where watering flowers. The teacher didn't know you would be doing this, plus walking up your path is nothing to get upset about. Watch yourself because you are teaching your child to act batshit like you.

You're getting a hard time on here OP and I agree with you, it's very odd.

Assuming this was a run of the mill, "star of the week" type certificate or similar, it's of such little consequence that it is odd she couldn't just wait until your DS was in school.

I'd understand it if it were something important and time sensitive, like a supporting letter you urgently needed or something, but not a primary school certificate!

I wouldn't think that there's anything sinister behind it, more that the teacher is waaay too invested in the minutae of the job and hasn't got anything better to do with their time. Are they young and new?

I've had a teacher pop something round before, but they called beforehand and it was essential equipment before a weekend.

I actually agree, it's a bit intrusive. I don't think it's anything to worry about. It was probably an act of genuine kindness or she realised from seeing your address before that you live close by or something rather than anything sinister but I would have thought they'd realise some families really just want to keep home and school separate. No one would like it if their boss or similar looked up their address on HR files and dropped something over.

teachers have access to address information, phone numbers, names of parents etc. Not sure why you think they wouldn’t have access.