There were a bunch of boys in my second grade class who figured out that you could touch their eyeballs with their fingers. My teacher didn't like it because of germs so she told them if you accidently hit the black middle part of your eye it would pop out. I believed it until I was about 14.
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 was little my uncle told me he was part bear. I believed people could be part bear until I was twelve. — Audrey
- I used to think my elementary school gym teacher's name was "Jim Class".— Brandon Campbell
- Burned fish fingers ment the fish was from the black sea.Anon
- I never knew why boys had to lift up the toilet seat...until my friend told me that boys had bad aim.Anon
- I used to think the Back Street Boys were black. I also thought Seal was a boy band. — Tufty