I grew up in Texas and when I heard someone was "sentenced to death" I thought that they'd been forced to write the same sentence over and over again until they died, since one of my teachers at school made us write sentences on the blackboard when we were bad.
A childhood belief about police

others believed things like this
- i uase to write my #s like 3d 3d1 3d2 5d4 etc!— anm
- I used to believe that I would one day have a dog, and I would teach him to speak, read, and even write!— Gretchen
- I could NOT understand why, if a pen worked on paper, it couldn't also write in thin air.— Can you guess what it is yet?
- I used to believe that the school rabbit liked the red berries that grew in the hedge. But then he died.— Charlotte
- 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