classes

My friends and I thought that grades in school kept going on forever and that even adults had to go to school every day. Only after we asked a teacher what grade she was in did we learn that the last grade is 12th grade.

Tyler

In third grade, I read the schedule. It had mostly the same classes as second grade, but instead of "recess", there was "P.E." I used to believe that P.E. meant recess because of that. Until my first PE class...

recess

When I was in grade school I believed that my Dad would be home with Mom and us kids during the whole summer too! I was so upset to find out that my Daddy didn't get any time off~he was really my hero then!!!

Susan

My young sister-in-law used to say she had been to gym-elastics which sounded much more energetic than gymnastics!

SueE

I used to believe that exercise books actually contained exercises of the keep fit variety. I must have bought four from the local shop before realising there was no mistake and they were supposed to be blank.

pie

Whwn i was in kindregarden, i used to get out to wait for my mom, coming to take me home, and my teacher was always terrified that i got lost. So she told me that a gipsy man comes and takes children away and puts potatoes slices on their eyes, and they get blind. I used to believe that untill i was 17.

Claudia

I was young when President Reagan was shot. At my grammar school it was said that kids at ‘the high school’ had clapped when they heard the news. I didn’t understand the politics of it all and only knew that it was horrible that a human being had been shot. I thought that ‘the high school’ must be this incredibly frightening orgy of violence – think ‘Rebel Without a Cause’ crossed with ‘Spartacus’ – that was orchestrated, encouraged and graded (!!) by the teachers. What else could bring people to applaud the assassination of a president?

kids, hah!

When i was in nursery school (sorry guys i'm English, i think that's kindergarten or something for americans) i used to think that if u had your fingers in your ears no1 else could here you. Needless to say my teachers got very annoyed when i started shouting in the middle of classes. I was so schocked to find out that they could hear me too.

A brit

when i was in elementary school i always thought it was a place to put your kids when you got tired of them and when you wanted them back you would pick them up

kelly

One day I came home and told my mother that I knew how to make adult trees. Unfortunately, she misunderstood me and thought that I had told her I learned how to make adultries. She was very relieved to know that I was just learning how to draw trees the adult way.

Lauren

When I was doing my A Levels at college (about 17 years old) I spent one afternoon a week helping out at the local infants school (5-7 years). One day I noticed a couple of them giggling at me. When I asked what was so funny one girl admitted that they all thought I was really stupid, because I was forced to come back to small school at my age!

Clare

Before I started school my brother told me that all the kids at school ate napkins. I wanted to be cool like all those kids at school and started eating napkins.

Anon

I went to a private school that went fron K-8th grade, When I was in Kindergarden, I used to think that the once you finished eighth grade you went on to college. I also thought that the 8th graders were all about 20 years old.

sarah

I beleive it was third grade that we progressed to cursive writing but I must have been impatient to get on with it because I turned in my first assignment in cursive on an occasion when we weren't asked to use cursive. I hadn't yet learned all the tricks of this new writing style but I was trying to show off anyway. My balloon got burst big time when the teacher pointed out that there were supposed to be spaces between each word not just between sentences. You see I had strung all the letters in my sentences together sothewordswereconnectedtoo

M Dowd, SF,CA

My Elementary School was a part of a University, so we always had student teachers, and there were mirrors near the cealing that people could see through, and could quietly observe. We called them the magic mirrors.

Whenever I wanted to do something bad, I couldn't, cause I was afraid that the monsters who sit behind the magic mirrors would eat me for being bad. I also thought that Santa used the magic mirrors.

Charlotte

I used to believe that the only reason children went to school was to give their parents free time. I thought school was a babysitting service in disguise.

Bren

I didn't know you didn't HAVE to go to pre-school before you went to kindergarten, so when my little sister and cousin decided they hated pre-school, I felt so sorry for them because I thought they were "drop outs" and wouldn't be able to go to college or get a job

LS

When I was little in kinder, we started the year with a "practice fire drill" Which i thought of as what you would think a fire drill is.Then the next day we had a "real" fire drill, I thought they were gonna set the school on fire! :(

MDIZZ

One day when school was out my mom came to pick my sister and myself up. Except my sister wasnt there. I asked my mom why and she said she had to stay after to take a make up test.I thought to myself "She'll do great she wears alot of make-up

mandy

in my Primary (elementry) school, there was an after school care. I went there every day till my mum came home from work and pickeed me up. My friend Susan, didnt realise till she was in p4 that we went home at the end of the day because she didnt go there, she thought all the kids who went to after school care slept in the scholl attic every night. Im going in to my first year at secondary now and i still cant tell if the penny has dropped.

Jennifer Walker (uk)