When I was in grade school, my friend told me that at night, the teachers slept naked on our work tables. From that point on I was always disgusted when we had to do a project at the work tables.

Katie

my little brother was shocked when his teacher asked him to get something from the store-room at the back of the class.he thought that it was her bedroom n that all the teachers slept at school in the night and lived in the staff-room!

katy

I used to believe my teachers lived in the classroom. It was a total shock the first time I saw one of them in a supermarket.

Ruth

I used to believe that all teachers stayed at school every night and threw slumber parties with the other teachers because for some reason my old school used to always smell like popcorn. It was wierd.

Anon

As a teacher, I sometimes have reason to call my the homes of my students. One evening, around 6:30pm I called to check on a student who had been out sick for a while. I told her that the class missed her and that we were looking forward to having her back. The next day, she came in and asked me where the phone was that I called her from. She peered around the room, apparently wondering where I hid it. It dawned on me that she thought I called her from the classroom and so I informed her that I called from home. She looked at me wide eyed and said, "You mean you don't live here?" Looking back, I remembered a time when I too believed my teachers lived in their classrooms!

Joanne

When I was little, my Dad told me that teachers never left school. When I got there in the morning, they were there. When I left, they were there. One time I saw my teacher at Safeway and I said "What are YOU doing here?!"

JM

Until first grade, I thought all the teachers lived at school with all the other teachers. They didn't have a family or kids of their own and I also thought they called the other teachers by Mr. or Mrs. too!

kae

My old primary school had an upstairs that was out of bounds, and I was convinced that must be where the teachers slept.

Flora

i used to think teachers lived in the classrooms b/c they were there before you came and after you left.

josieg

I was absolutely sure that teachers lived at school. One day, my friends and I leaned down to the ground and heard noises from under the floor. We deduced that it was our teacher's husband watching football and eating popcorn (very detailed, huh?). We told her that we knew her secret, expecting her to be amazed at our detective skills. She cracked up. Still, I refused to believe it until I visited my first grade teacher at her house. I felt like a retard.

anonymous

When I was about 7 I thought that teachers lived at school year-round. My mates and I would dare each other to look in the teacher's lounge to see if there were beds in there. We never did. Then one day I had to take a note to the teacher's lounge and i discovered no beds. I figured they were in the closet.
When we got to ask any question we wanted to the first thing that came out of my mouth was "Where are the beds? Why don't you live at home with your husband?" My teacher had hystarics. During confrence time my teacher told my mum and dad about my question. They cracked like eggs. OMG!

doglovingfreak345

i used 2 believe thsat the janotor lived inside the storege closet because every day when i left school he'd walk in to there.And he always seemed to be at the school before me.

Anon

When I was young like in 1st or 2nd grade i used to believe that the teachers lived above the ceilings of their classrooms or the hallways. So you can imagine my surprise one day when a) i saw the custodian and my teacher in her room on a ladder looking into the ceiling, i automatically thought that she and the custodian were married and lived up there and b) when the technician came and i asked him what is it like up in the teachers houses in the ceiling and he just laughed and patted my head... i later told my mom and she laughed and then told me the truth.

confuzzled

When i first started school i thought that the teachers lived at school and slept on the bean bags in the reading area. I believed that until I was about nine.
Also when my older cousin was staying with us for a while he told me he was god, I was only three at the time and was especially nice to him from then on, (only when i shared the secret with my mum, was i corrected).

Alyce

It never occured to me as a child that teachers lived in houses. I thought they lived at school...

Heidi, Pittsburgh, PA

I used to think that my teachers lived at the school and slept in the closets. although I found out that this was not true when I was 6, up until last year i still believed that teachers did not have social lives. When my study hall teacher said that he was getting married, I blurted out, "Oh my gosh you have a love life!?!?!"

Janie

I thought all the teachers slept at school.

Ryan

I believed that our teachers lived at school. They were teachers--they had no reason to leave :)(

Anon

In first grade, my teacher had a blanket and pillow on the rug where she read the children stories. People said that the teacher used the blanket and pillow and slept on the desks at night and never went home. I believed this intill my mom finally said that my teacher had a life other than teaching children all day^_^

Sailorlove90

I used to believe that teachers lived at school. They did not have personal lives and devoted their whole life to teaching little kids their abc's. I thought this was because nobody ever wanted to marry them. I got really confused when my 2nd grade teacher told the whole class she was engaged.

TeachersHaveHomesToo??