When we explained to our son that he would be starting school soon, he asked how long he had to stay there. We explained he would go to school until he was about 16. He started to cry - he didn't realise he would come home every afternoon- he thought he had to stay at the school until he was 16
A childhood belief about classes

others believed things like this
- I thought pretending I was sick to stay home from school was called cookie not hookie.— Jen
- When I was 6 I used to believe my parents were watching me at school on TV. It explained a lot at the time!— opinionata
- when i first started school i thought the teachers lived in the school and slept on the tables.— emma
- Right when I started school, I believed that you could get kicked out of school for chewing gum. — Rheeb
- When I was in elementary school I use to think that teacher lived at school at their desks all year long.Anon
- I used to think that if I was home sick that no one else could go to school either. (it was MY school)— kirk