I used to believe the principal had a spanking machine in his office.
My Aunt Wilma told me the spanking machine at my cousin's school had an electrical short, and the shock you got hurt worse than the spanking, until they got it fixed.

BoB

When I was little, my teacher would always tell us that she had eyes behind her head. I really took it seriously! I always used to try and see them, but if I tryed too hard I knew her eyes would see me. So I would throw paper when she bent down so her eyes were facing up, and I would try and hit her 'behind her head' eyes. Oh well, I thought, man will I show my kids when I have eyes behind my head, when I grow up!!

Still looking closely

In kindergarten, I thought the teacher was my mom. I wondered how she got to school before me without taking the bus.

alpope23

My 1st grade teacher left abrubtly in the middle of the school yeah, so i asked my mom why. Not wanting to go into specifics, she told me he was an alien, and, being 5, i thought she meant from Mars, not Mexico.

Astronomy kid

I was about 4 years old and I was about to start school, I was terrified. Not because I was leaving my mom but because I was afraid of Ms. Trenchable, I was afriad she would put me in the Chokey, I had seen Matilda WAY too many times.
When I went I was so confused I didn't inderstand why I didn't get Ms. Honey and why Matilda wasn't in my class. I was convinced that Matilda and I were goign to be the best of friends.

Jenna

I had a gorgeous young kindergarten teacher who I absolutely adored. A couple times during the school year, she showed up not looking like her beautiful self and seemed kind of grouchy. I was always very suspicious of her on these days because I suspected that she might have been taken over by a nasty pod person. I realize now, with the benefit of age, that she was probably having a bad day and didn't put on make-up on that morning!

albertine

I used to believe that teachers lived inside the closets of their classrooms.

Anon

Like many others, I used to believe that teachers spent all their time at the school. I never saw them outside of the classroom setting.

Then, my first grade teacher invited the entire class to her house for a picnic. (It turns out she did this every year.) I was dumbfounded to learn that teachers were regular people.

Kdees

When I was younger, the primary school I attended became 'Grant Maintained'. This was at about the same time that a teaching assisstant called Grant joined the school. I thought that the school's title was referring to him and that he was really important.

Alice

When I was at school I used to believe that teachers didnt eat and that their always stayed at school / Now i'm teacher

Nilar

I used to believe that my teachers didn't poop.

finnegan

when I was small (primary age) I thought that when we went home teachers cleaned up then sat down at a desk and just stayed there untill we came back.At the time I thought it all seemed absoulutely believable. I didn't think any different untill a teacher mentioned his wife.

Ryan L

when i was in second grade, i had a really mean teacher named Mrs.Murden, the thing is that she was so mean that her students called her mrs.murder. there was a rumor going around the school (that i truly believed) that she had once called a kid up to the front of the class and stabbed him in the forehead with a pencil. after that, i tried not to get called up to the front of the class

j-chan

Our teacher in school told us that if we ever went passed the school gates that there would be a big black van waiting to kidnap us!! Noone took t chance!

sarah

in kindergarden my teacher pretended like our class hamster escaped so we could walk around like we were on a mission, it was fun, but when we asked the lunch lady if she'd seen him she said "oh better find him fast, we're serving lunch hamster for lunch!" later we found him (magically back in his cage) but i skipped lunch that day.

Danya

when i started school, i had a really mean teacher! after school my mom took me to the books store to look for some cool picture books. When we got there, i saw this book called "my teachers from the black lagoon" and i though it said " all teachers come from the black lagoon!" and on the cover i saw this monster pic and i thought that my teacher was a monster in disguise!!!

Annie

I used to think that teachers didn't have first names, i guess it just didnt occur to me. Then, when they answered the phone with their real name i got so confused!! Especially since my science teacher's name was geraldine!!

Emily

When I was in the 1st or 2nd grade, the nun told the class that if we wore our boots in the classroom it would harm our eyesight. I think I was an adult for a long time before I came to suspect it wasn't true. (Maybe it is.)

Bill

When i was younger, i used to think that the headteachers office was full of little square cages and whenever somebody went to the headteachers office, they never returned because he used to shove them in a cage forever! lol xxxx

XX F XX

In elementary school most kids during class would raise their hand to use the restroom. I used to believe that teachers never had to use the restroom 'cause they never took a bathroom break during class even when the teacher's aide was available to watch the class when she was gone.

Temerity