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.
A childhood belief about teachers

others believed things like this
- When I was a kid, I believed that bible school was "beauty school", and called it that all the time.— Dana
- When I was at primary school I used to believe you could only marry someone who was the same height as you!— Lucy
- when i first started school i thought the teachers lived in the school and slept on the tables.— emma
- When I was in elementary school nuns cam to our school. I thought that 'nun' meant they had no religion.Anon
- In primary school, a whole bunch of kids including me believed that watermelon seeds contained ants. — Caff
- I used to believe that my school teachers lived inside the school and my school bus driver lived on the bus. Anon