school: teachers

I used to believe…

when i started school, i had a really mean teacher! after school my mom took me to the books store to look for some cool picture books. When we got there, i saw this book called "my teachers from the black lagoon" and i though it said " all teachers come from the black lagoon!" and on the cover i saw this monster pic and i thought that my teacher was a monster in disguise!!!

I used to believe…

In my schol the teachers parked their cars in a row in a car park which the kids could also run about in. One day I decided that every different car colour had a different flavour. My friends and I ran around licking the yellow car for a lemon taste, the red for strawberry and so on...

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When i was younger, i used to think that the headteachers office was full of little square cages and whenever somebody went to the headteachers office, they never returned because he used to shove them in a cage forever! lol xxxx

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In elementary school most kids during class would raise their hand to use the restroom. I used to believe that teachers never had to use the restroom 'cause they never took a bathroom break during class even when the teacher's aide was available to watch the class when she was gone.

I used to think that my teachers at school didn't have lives outside of school. I was shocked the day I found out my teacher was married and had kids of her own.

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In Kindergarten, one of the teachers at my school died in a car accident. This happened around the same time as the Challenger Disaster, and it wasn't until my teens that I realized the teacher that died in the shuttle was not from my school.

I used to believe…

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!)

I was told that children of different ages were in different "grades" in school -- first grade was when you were six, fifth grade was when you were ten, etc.

However, my birthday is in February, which is in the middle of the school year. When I was in Kindergarten, I started getting increasingly worried right before my sixth birthday because I thought that after my kindergarten class held the usual in-class party for me, my teacher would pick me up, physically drop-kick me out the door to the classroom, and leave me to find my way to the first grade classroom by myself.

i used to and kind of still fear that teachers can read minds. i cursed at teachers in my head all the time, and sometimes they gave me this look like i actually said it to them, but they were trying to hide their mind reading powers so they couldn't yell at me or i would find out.

I used to believe…

When I was 6, on the last day of term before Christmas, there was a rumour going round my class that our teacher was in fact a burglar who had put time bombs in our Christmas crackers so that wehen we pulled them, we'd be blown up!

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When I was in the special needs unit at my school in year 2 in 1996, there was also another girl in year 4 who always caused quite a bit of a stir-up and was always getting into trouble. Quite often when she did something wrong, the special needs teacher would say "I'll kill her!", and I was wondering where the gun was. I told my parents that this teacher was going to kill this girl, and they said that it was only sarcasm. I wouldn't think that she'd kill anyone now, she was a very lovely lady.

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My mother is a primary school teacher and she takes the junior class in her school. We went to that same school. When my little brother was about to start school he was hyperactive and bad tempered. She really didn't want to teach him so she told him it was illegal for parents to teach their children. He still believes it.

I used to believe (in elementary school) that students would get in trouble if they dare called their teachers by their first names. I didn't even know my teacher's first names, until years later when I was looking over my school report cards, class pictures, etc. I didn't know my first grade teacher's name was Margaret Mitchell, same as the lady who wrote, "Gone With the Wind."

I used to believe my teacher was a psycho killer and would come kill me in my sleep. My teachers last name was Smith and I saw something on the news about a murderer and who they thought it was. I never missed a homework assignment, and apologized about seven times when I'd make an error on my work. My teacher was pretty worried about me, and one day she asked me to stay after...I was so nervous I almost pissed my pants. I was in sixth grade.

I used to believe…

When I was a child, I used to believe that teachers never leave school and slept in the chairs.

I used to think that teachers always had to officially announce to the whole class why someone was off sick.