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I used to believe that my sister tried to get bad grades on purpose as a plan to get more attention and "A Money" from mom & dad. They would pay us as reward for good report cards and my sister got WAY more money for an A than I would. It was infuriating.

I used to believe that getting Straight-A's was perfectly normal and expected... Heck, all you had to do was pay attention and answer the questions! I was convinced my sister was somehow purposefully getting Cs and Ds because getting As is so easy you would have to try hard to get grades that bad.

Anon

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

My family moved when I was about 7, and I started at a new school. At first, all the people in my new class looked like people at my old school. For a little bit I was convinced that they were doubles (or close to it, there were some differences), and, in each town, there was an "equivalent" (I probably didn't use that word back then) for each person. I never told anyone. I never found my equivalent (and I still live in this same town, 12 years later). Maybe if another "you" moves to town, you get notified and have to move.

Now that I think about it, going from preschool into kindergarten, I think there were a few doubles there (that definitely weren't the ones from preschool!)

Phil

I used to believe that kindergarden was about cats beacause i thought it was
kittygarden.

Samantha

When I was in preschool, there was a pretend clock in the room. The hands never moved. Our teacher said if we didn't look at it, it would move. I believed her and I used to always peek at it out of the corner of my eye, thinking it wouldn't know I was looking and the hands would move.

Rainbow Brite

when i was about 4 my grandpa would always take me to the school playgroud between breaks and i always thought that it was a prison (i suppose my guess was close enough!!!)

Torrie manitoba canada

When I was finished nursery school, we had a graduation ceremony with caps and gowns, and certificates, the whole works. My brother graduated high-school the same day. I overheard him telling my mam that since he graduated he would never go to school again, not even collage. I assumed I wouldn't have to either, so the next year I told my new teacher I was not coming to learn 'cos I graduated, but I'd be glad to help teach.

Catrin

On my first day of school, I wanted to hurry in and find a seat in the first row - I thought the 1st row was for grade 1, the second row for 2nd grade and so on... Because I was tall, the teacher had me sit in the back... I was to shy to say anything, but I was very worried!

Louise Janzen

When I was young, my family was in the military. We were going to Germany. I thought that I would go over and have to go to a German school and speak German and forget how to speak English and I cried and cried, I was so afraid I would not be able to speak to anyone when we came home and I did not want to go. I was relieved to find they had American Schools and spoke English!!!

Anon

i used to think i went to preschool for 4 years... i think my logic behind it was that after kindergarten - 8th grade, you had four years of high school and four years of college. so i must have thought i had four years of preschool before all of that. i could also have just gotten years mixed up with seasons, i got a lot of things mixed up as a kid

Anon

I never could hear very well, and I remember in Kindergarten that the teacher was calling roll and everyone was saying "present." I was very excited because I thought I was going to get a present! Then, in first grade the same thing happened again and I was really sad cause I never got my present!

Megan

The old Incredible Hulk show was a big favorite in my grade school. Enough so that I sincerely believed that the Hulk himself lived in the girl's bathroom, and that was why you couldn't go in there.

My teachers were pretty obvious playing favorites, so it made perfect sense that the girls would get to know about the Hulk, and we wouldn't.

I think I stopped believing in this one, embarassingly enough, because everyone started being 'way into The Dukes of Hazzard instead.

Anon

I used to believe that everytimes you closed your desk or locker or something in school, that your stuff would start dancing and having a party but when you opened it then they would stop partying, i thought this cause i would put my head to my desk and here noises.But i found out later there was no party! :(

Krazy Kay

When I was little, I saw old TV shows that showed students sitting in front of the class wearing the Dunce Cap (a huge pointed gnome-looking hat) because they had gotten answers wrong when the teacher called on them. So I was terrified of going to kindergarden because I thought they were going to put the Dunce Cap on me if I didn't know the answer. I felt a lot better when my mom said they don't use Dunce Caps anymore and that most schools never did.

Kate

When I was in kindergarden my teacher said raise your hand if you need to speek. So I didn't know that meant like a question or something like that. So I was really bored and I needed to talk. So I raised my hand and when the teacher called on me to speek, I said Baboom Boom lala fafa fefe so me do. My teacher still recalls that I have a BIG problem.

Baboom

When I was in kindergaten I saw a commercial (I think I misunderstud it) and it was a girl that said she had a child in second grade. I was terrified to go into second grade. Then when i finished second grade I was so relived that I didnt have a baby.

CGG

When I went to pre-school, I thought that the name of it was actually "pretty school". This is how I pronounced it, and how I heard everyone else pronounce it. And I never thought, hey, this isn't where kids go to get pretty or anything like that. That's just what it was called for some reason.

Laura

at my elementary school there was a sign built into the wall with the man's face who made the school on it. so i believed that the guy was actually burried behind the wall, so i was always afraid to walk past it.

sydney

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...

Anon

As a kid I used to believe that when you sharpened your pencil, the eraser on the pencil grew.

Anon