When I was in primary school there was this teacher called Mr S. Everyone said that when you were in his class and you were bad, he'd hang you up on the coat-hook on the back of his door. He did threaten to 'hang us from on high' a couple of times, so it was partly his own fault we believed this.
A childhood belief about teachers

others believed things like this
- I used to think the Senior Center was where all the high school seniors got to hang out and cut class— Jordan
- I used to think the song "Hang on sloopy" was "hang on snoopy"— gina
- I used to think my elementary school gym teacher's name was "Jim Class".— Brandon Campbell
- In primary school, a whole bunch of kids including me believed that watermelon seeds contained ants. — Caff
- When I was young, I honestly believed that I would die before I reached high school. Anon
- When I was a kid, I believed that bible school was "beauty school", and called it that all the time.— Dana