Until I was 14 or 15 I really believed there were Truancy Officers who checked up on kids who didn't go to school, to be sure they were really sick.
A childhood belief about classes

others believed things like this
- I believed that traffic lights had police officers inside them, turning the lights on and off...— CrowHeart
- I used to think that if I was home sick that no one else could go to school either. (it was MY school)— kirk
- I didn't quite grasp the concept of time zones, and thought that Chinese kids went to school at night.— Giselle
- I used to believe police officers can't get arrested.— Anonymous
- In primary school, a whole bunch of kids including me believed that watermelon seeds contained ants. — Caff
- When I was a little kid. I thought that police officers were a gang of mean people who bullied others.— LOOL