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.
A childhood belief about teachers
others believed things like this
- I believed that our teachers lived at school. They were teachers--they had no reason to leave :)(Anon
- I used to believe that teachers built missiles when they went to the teachers lounge.— HOLLIS
- I used to think that teachers always had to officially announce to the whole class why someone was off sick.Anon
- I used to believe that the teacher's lounge was where the teachers went to make out.— Julia
- when i first started school i thought the teachers lived in the school and slept on the tables.— emma
- i used to believe that all the teachers lived at schoolAnon