At the end of first grade, I was told I was going to skip second grade. The first day of school, when my mom came to wake me up I was very confused. I thought I got a year off for being smart and could stay home and play all year!
A childhood belief about classes

others believed things like this
- A[n] nth grade teacher only had to finish the nth grade when he or she was in school.— MD Caruso
- I used to think that life was all a dream and one day i would wake up like a 75 year old woman.( who knows?)— 8 with wrinkles
- I thought pretending I was sick to stay home from school was called cookie not hookie.— Jen
- When I was in elementary school I use to think that teacher lived at school at their desks all year long.Anon
- When I was a child, I used to think that one day my brother and I would be in the same grade at school.— Alexis Yahir López
- Abba - Happy New Year
"Kangaroo year,
Kangaroo year..."— Santa Puncher