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When I was atleast 5-7 years old,I decided that script or cursive writing was scribble scrabble because I couldn't understand it or read it,so I would tell my First grade teacher what script was,and we had a special writing log that we had to write and draw in every day,so I wrote that I wanted to learn how to write in script,and below it was a picture of scribble scrabble,now of course I could never translate my version or "script"

glowworm

There was an encyclopedia at school caled "Blacks Children's Encyclopedia" and I thought only black kids were allowed use it. The fact that there weren't any black kids in our school did nothing to dispell this belief.

Welsh girl

The following is according to my parents.

When I was in kidergarten, I came home from school one day and told my parents that one of my friends told me that if I ate a lot of crackers, I would never have to go to the dentist. They said, "No, everyone has to go to the dentist." Then I responded with, "Oh yeah? Well, he's in FIRST GRADE! He should know!"

Ken

I used to believe that when your pencil ran out of eraser that if you sharpened it it would grow a new eraser

Nikkie

At around nursery school age, I woke one day to find it raining. I declaired to my mum that I'm wasn't going to school today. When questioned why, I came out with " they don't need you when it's raining"

Oh if that was true!

lindsey

After my first day at school i came home and said to my mother "that was nice, but i dont think i'll do it again" if only....

Filch

When I was in about 1st or 2nd grade, I used to think that school went on forever. I had a lot of cousins and they all talked about being in such high grades like 10th or 11th (which I'm currently in). I actually remember having a conversation with one of my friends at the time that school would go on until 1 millionth grade!

Ram420

When I was little - before we learned cursive - my sister and I called it 'real writing'.

Monty

When I was little I went to a school that was 1st to 3rd. I was in 1st and I can remember thinking 3rd graders were the really big kids. I couldn't wait to be one!

Amanda

when i went to preschool i was told that each november 11th i got out for 'Veteran's Day' but i always heard it as 'Bedtime's Day' and thought that it was the day when everyone spent the whole day in bed

mmailliw

when i was young a friend of mine frome primary school told me that she never studied at home because she had a special trick, and so she told me that she only had to put her schoolbook under her pillow and when she woke up in the morning the knowledge had transferred to her brain. i was so stupid to believe her. one special day my parents were gone on holidays and my grandmother was looking after me, i tryed it and got the worst mark i ever had.

caro

As a preschooler, I used to think that at school testing starts on Day 1 and testing, not teaching, was what teachers mostly did. I knew how to read, write, add and subtract before I went to school, but I knew there was a mathematical operation called multiplication and I didn't know how to multiply. So on my first day of class I was trembling with fear because I thought the teacher will ask me to multiply two numbers and give me a failing grade.

tk

My daughter asked why I didn't come to the school assemblies. I explained that it was difficult for mummy as I had to work. She then proceeded to tell me that I didn't know what I was missing out on as 'God' comes to the assemblies. I later realised that she was talking about the Priest!

Lesley

When I first started kindergarden.. my mom told me that the mom's waited in a room across the hall so that i wouldn't be scared of being left.

Finch

When I was at school I thought 'fire extinguishers' actually shot out flames and when a fire alarm went off they would all start shooting flames out everywhere.

I was confused for a long time about this because surely if there was a fire this would only make the problem worse?

Anon

When I was in preschool, I used to believe that if you just scribbled loops on paper, that was writing cursive.

Anon

When I was in first grade we attended an assembly. Well this assembly in particular they were going to hand out the awards for perfect attendance etc... Well when I heard my name I went up on stage to get my trophy. Only when I got up there it wasn't even my class they were calling out the awards for it was for the fourth graders. My teacher was on the side calling me telling me that I didn't hear the last name they called on.

Anon

When I was a kid I used to get really excited whenever I figured something out in school (like the three times table) and believed that I was the only one who had figured it out. Up to this point my belief was pretty harmless but I went on to believe that I had to hide my "discoveries" otherwise the teacher would take credit for them. I ended up taking a lot of remiedial class for a year.

Loay

When I was in elementary school, there were four water fountains side by side. They were labeled "Coffee, tea, milk shake, pee". "Milkshake" had the strongest flow, so everyone wanted to drink from the third fountain. "Pee" just trickled out, but sometimes some hapless kid would drink out of it. If he did, he would be teased for the rest of the day.

(Jacob, did you happen to go to the same school as I went to: Hillside School, in Berkeley, CA? Or was it a more widespread phenomenon?)

Kdees