school

i used to believe that teacher lived at school

I thought when you are writing you just capitalized whatever you words you thought were important. Later I found out they actually did write that way a long time ago.

I used to believe that teachers lived inside the closets of their classrooms.

I used to believe that the part of the Pledge of Allegiance "and to the Republic for which it stands" was "and to the Republic where witches stands" until I was 16 and saw it written on the wall of an elementary school classroom.

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When I was little my mom told me that the school police would see me if I went out of the house while I was home sick from school. I always imagined FBI agents with radios and such. I was always terrified to go grocery shopping or such whenever I was home sick because I thought the school police would find me!

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For a while during recess at school (around 1st or 2nd grade) I had this hole I dug that I kept trying to make bigger (with my bare hands). It never got very big, but I was convinced that eventually I would find something valuable like gold.

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When I was a freshman in high school, I remember when my phys. ed. class was learning volleyball. My phys. ed. teacher taught us about a "forearm pass" and I thought he said "four-arm pass." Sometimes when he told us to do a "forearm pass", I got confused and thought, "How can you do a four-arm pass if we only have two arms?! I'm not Goro (from Mortal Kombat)! It took me some time to realize what my teacher was really saying.

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My school was K-12 and in Kindergarten not only did I think the older students were going to kidnap me if I walked up the staircase alone at the beginning of the day (meaning that I had to wait for a classmate to walk up with me) but I also thought they were full fledged adults who had their own houses and everything. I figured out the truth in about first grade when I saw an ad for one of the seniors in the year book from their parents. It said they were going to miss hearing music coming from their daughter's room while she studied. I was confused as to why someone would do homework in their parents house if they had their own place...

I had a French teacher in preschool, and one day I asked if she lived in America or if she lived in France. She must have been joking but I didn't catch it when she told me that she lived in france and took a boat to my school every day.

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My sister is about five years older than me and I would watch my dad help her with her algebra homework. I didn't understand the concept of variables so I believed that each letter of the alphabet had an assigned number, which seemed way too complex for my naive brain.

I used to believe that school was a gigantic house, with no doors or windows ,with just three walls, I thought that the students were together in a big room (regardless of age), and there was just one teacher. I believed this until my first day of school.

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When I was little I believed that school was compulsory until you got a PhD.

I used to believe that teachers never smoked or drank because i never see them do it in their car/the school/or the parking lot!

I went to a 'private' Christian school my first two years of school. When I heard people talking about private school, I thought that meant that people would have to knock on the door before they came into the school. Even after I started attending, I kept wanting to tell people coming through the front double doors, "Hey, you're supposed to knock." I never had the courage to speak it though. I realized about 4 years later what it really meant and that belief has always made me laugh.

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Before I was old enough to start attending school I used to believe that kindergarten was candygarden and that when you went to school there was tons of candy for you to eat.

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When my teacher said, " I have eyes in the back of my head." I would imagine eyes staring at me from under her hair...This earned her great respect from all of the kids and I in Kindergarten.