This one time at school we had a thing where we had to listen to people give opposing viewpoints on various issues. One was "should teachers be tenured". Having never heard that word before I thought they asked "should teachers be tender" and thought "what a weird question"
A childhood belief about teachers

others believed things like this
- I believed that our teachers lived at school. They were teachers--they had no reason to leave :)(Anon
- when i first started school i thought the teachers lived in the school and slept on the tables.— emma
- I thought all the teachers slept at school.— Ryan
- I thought all teachers in school were married to each otherAnon
- I used to believe that teachers built missiles when they went to the teachers lounge.— HOLLIS
- I used to believe that teachers lived in ufos at night and tha's why they dressed so weird.— llama queen