I used to believe that the principal was the mother/father of the teachers and staff of the school and they were all brothers and sisters. I started this belief in first grade. It stopped around fifth grade.
A childhood belief about teachers

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
- when i first started school i thought the teachers lived in the school and slept on the tables.— emma
- 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
- I believed that our teachers lived at school. They were teachers--they had no reason to leave :)(Anon
- When a "mean girl" in early grade school asked me if I was a virgin I answered "no I am catholic."— Hilary
- There was a popular rumor back in grade school that BUBBLE YUM gum was made with spider eggs.— Amber