In the first year at junior school our scary teacher Miss Brander used to threaten to have us thrown into kindergarten if we misbehaved. I though this was an actual garden and envisaged a big pit made of dry earth, inhabited by miserable children. The prospect petrified me.
A childhood belief about teachers
others believed things like this
- When I was in elementary school I use to think that teacher lived at school at their desks all year long.Anon
- My husband used to believe that kindergarten was called, "kiddie garden." — wife of mispronouncing guy
- When I was in kindergarten, I used to believe that they locked the teacher's in the teacher's lounge at night.Anon
- I used to think that when you went to junior school you had to wear a turban.— Ellie Stott
- Until junior high school, I thought Monty Python was a wrestler.— Jamie
- My sister thought (not more than one year ago, she is now 14) that John Doe was an actual person.— Brother to Natascha