In pre school I heard my teachers on the phone occasionally and they would say something like, "Hi, this is Sue.."
I thought the teachers all had code names (as I had never heard a first name being used and it never occured to me that there could be any other name than their last name)
A childhood belief about teachers

others believed things like this
- It never occured to me as a child that teachers lived in houses. I thought they lived at school...— Heidi, Pittsburgh, PA
- 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
- when i first started school i thought the teachers lived in the school and slept on the tables.— emma
- I thought all the teachers slept at school.— Ryan
- I thought all teachers in school were married to each otherAnon