I used to believe the "lead" inside pencils was real lead and thus was deadly poisonous. In school, I would never touch the poit of a pencil, and I would only hold paper I had written on by the edges. I think I did this till I was 9.
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I remember in 2nd grade being terrified of the vision and hearing screenings performed at school. I thought that the nurse would actually pull out your eyes and ears, test them, and then give you new ones if they were bad. You can imagine my relief when I just had to look into a viewmaster and put on headphones.
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On my first day in kindergarten, I was sent to take the attendance folder to the office. Well, I knew where to take it but didn't hear that name of it. As I was walking down the hallway I saw the sign 'office' and thought it meant to stay off the ice... it wasn't until my third grade year that I realized the school didn't have an ice rink at the end of the office hallway!
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When I was real little, I had a habit of chewing on wooden pencils. All my pencils had teeth marks all along the barrels. My teacher, whom I loved and trusted, told me that if I didn't stop, trees would grow in my stomach and the doctor would have to do surgery. I quit chewing pencils--I really believed what she told me!!
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when i was 5, i got terrified by the thought of starting at school. that was because i believed the teacher would hit me in front of the class, if i gave the wrong answer to a question.(fortunately it didn`t turn out like that!)
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In my parochial kindergarten class, the teacher tried to explain synonyms. When she gave as an example "two Father Johns would be a pair of Father Johns", I thought it meant we would have one normal Father John and one pear-shaped Father John.
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When I was in elementry school I truly believed make-up day was a time to play with make-up. I always wanted to be one of the sick kids. Now that I look back it never once occured to me what the buys might be doing at make-up day.
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When I was little, my Dad told me that teachers never left school. When I got there in the morning, they were there. When I left, they were there. One time I saw my teacher at Safeway and I said "What are YOU doing here?!"
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Back in elementary school there was a girl in my class who thought a stapler would only work on paper. To demonstrate this she tried to staple her tongue, thinking that it just wouldn't work. Well, it did.
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I used to think school would last forever....
i used to believe that my Kindergarten teacher was an old lady who was there to show us how much knowledge you gain by a ripe old age....she was 25 at the time...now that i'm 40....she doesn't seem to have been so old any more....
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the Pledge of Allegiance threw me as a kid "... and to the Republic for Richard Stands..." I waited for so many years trying to find out who Richard Stands was. We were told about Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln. I thought this man Stands must really be something to be in the Pledge.
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In elementary school, the teacher referred to a meeting with the "school board". I pictured people sitting around talking with a plank of wood.
I used to believe that my friend, a girl who was one year older than me, had an "affair" to my teacher.. I told all my friends that they had kissed, I really don`t know why.. I believed this for many years! Maybe it was because I found him handsome myself ?
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Every morning in grade school we said the Pledge to the Flag. The Pledge includes the words "... one nation under God for which it stands...." referring to the flag. For many years I really wondered what those witches' stands were like. Were they like vegtable stands with witches hanging around or what?
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up until the 6th grade (embarrasingly enough) I thought that we as a class pledged our allegiance to the united states of america, and to the republic for Richard Stanz, one nation...etc.
It wasn't until I looked up Richard Stanz, in a history book, and couldn't find the name of what must have been our country's #1 patriot.
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When I was in Preschool Smokey the Bear came to teach us fire safety. He kept saying, "Only you can prevent forest fires!" Only I was 3, so the word prevent was beyond my vocabulary and I thought he was blaming it all on me. "Only you, Tennille, can start forest fires!" I had nightmares for years.
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I didn't think that school teachers lived normal lives like other people. I was shocked when I realised they actually went home after work!!
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I used to believe that teachers cut off student's fingers with the fans they kept in the front of the classroom if they were caught using them for addition.
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A few months before I was to attend school for the first time, my sister and I were walking past the huge brick building. At the corner, across the street from the school, she gave me this sound advice... "When you walk to school, you'll have to wait right here for the crossing guard to help you get to the other side"
I thought she said crossing God. I fully expected the Lord to take me by the hand and lead me safely across the street.
Little did I know how right I was.