classes

I often beachcombed as a child for agates with my great-aunt. She would say that some stones I found were not quite ready and should be put back to finish turning into agates. I accepted this version until age 18 when I was publically caught out in a geology classroom.

Granny404

Back in kindergarten, my best friend was asked to skip first grade and go right to second grade. For my entire life, up to about age 18, I thought that the school had asked me to skip too, but my parents and I had decided against it. Right. Never happened! I must have convinced myself of this to make myself feel better!!

AnnieQ

I thought that nobody could hear me humming... that it was just in my head. So one day in 1st grade, while we were having quiet time, my teacher kindly asked me to stop humming because I was disturbing the rest of class!

Quincey

once when I didn't know how to do a math problem in 2nd grade, I checked out fromt he library an encyclopedia and took it all the way home. I was gong to look up "math" in it and find all the ways to do math problems so i could finish my homework. I coulndt figure out why this particular one only went from A to B

Overachiever

I didn't realize that school attendance was not optional. When asked how I liked my first day in first grade, I replied that it was ok, but lasted too long so I wasn't going back. Was I surprised that I had to go for at least 12 years!

Anon

when i was in first grade, on the first day the teacher announced that, as a class, we'd be taking a trip to the lavatory. i had no idea what that was, so i assumed it was the laboratory and we'd be experimented upon. i was extremely relieved when i realized she meant the bathroom.

ana

In school one day, second grade?, the teacher asked the students what nationality we were. The kids went around saying the usual various countries then it came my turn. I said, "I'm Cescarian." My last name being Cappucci, the teacher asked, "Do you mean Sicilian?" to which I replied, "No, Cescarian! That's what my mother always tells me."

SCappucci

On the morning of my first day of kindergarten, I proudly assured my mother that I would be able to read when I got home that day. I just assumed that your first day in school meant that you were than capable of reading anything.

I was utterly crushed when I found out this wasn't so.

Dan

I arrived at a new elementary school in the fifth grade. At an assembly soon after arriving, the principal mentioned that there would be an essay contest. I had never heard the word "essay" before and assumed he meant "S.A." I wracked my brain trying to think of what the abbreviation could mean.

Frank B.

when i was younger i used to believe that here in Australia, there was a few years gap between primary school and high school, let me tell ya i was dissapointed when i graduated from primary school and had to go to high school 6 weeks later

cordee

Here's one my kids will be submitting in 20 years: at their elementary school there is an aquarium built right into the wall. Right next to it is a drinking fountain. Many kids won't use that fountain because they believe the water comes from the aquarium!

Ann

At primary school, we used to sing hymns during assembly. We were given hymn books with the the words, and below each hymn was the name of its composer(s). I always used to wonder why this guy called Traditional wrote so many more hymns than everybody else.

Alex

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!

Lady Unicorn

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.

Ken

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.

amanda