My mother told me that if I skipped school that police would come and drag me out of my house in my underwear if they had to, and take me to school half naked. Remarkably I believed this until at least the beginning of High School.
A childhood belief about police

others believed things like this
- When I was young, I honestly believed that I would die before I reached high school. Anon
- When I was a kid, I believed that bible school was "beauty school", and called it that all the time.— Dana
- Right when I started school, I believed that you could get kicked out of school for chewing gum. — Rheeb
- I used to believe that my school teachers lived inside the school and my school bus driver lived on the bus. Anon
- I used to believe that you got married right after you finished high school or college. Anon
- When I was in elementary school I use to think that teacher lived at school at their desks all year long.Anon