As a teacher, I sometimes have reason to call my the homes of my students. One evening, around 6:30pm I called to check on a student who had been out sick for a while. I told her that the class missed her and that we were looking forward to having her back. The next day, she came in and asked me where the phone was that I called her from. She peered around the room, apparently wondering where I hid it. It dawned on me that she thought I called her from the classroom and so I informed her that I called from home. She looked at me wide eyed and said, "You mean you don't live here?" Looking back, I remembered a time when I too believed my teachers lived in their classrooms!
A childhood belief about teachers
you weren't the only one
102 of you believed this
- i used to think teachers lived in the classrooms b/c they were there before you came and after you left.— josieg
- I used to think that my teacher lived at school until she came to school late one day. I was shocked!— Wow, you have a life?!
- It never occured to me as a child that teachers lived in houses. I thought they lived at school...— Heidi, Pittsburgh, PA
- I use to believe that teachers would live at school and sleep under there desks :) lol— Stephanie
- When I was in kindergarten, I used to believe that they locked the teacher's in the teacher's lounge at night.Anon
- I believed that our teachers lived at school. They were teachers--they had no reason to leave :)(Anon