classes

i have always identified a subject in school as a color, like, math was red, reading was blue, science was green, etc. im 12 now and still belive it.

Megan

I used to think that when I saw a sign "Open to the Public" that I wasn't allowed in as I was Catholic!!!
(I went to Catholic School not Public school)

Nancy L

As a toddler, I loved the show Spot. There was this one episode where Spot goes to school, and he carries his lunchbox in his mouth, becuase he is a dog.

Well, I actually though it was the proper way to hold a lunchbox, so once when my Mom was out shopping, I saw a lunchbox for sale and put the handle in my mouth. The shopkeeper didn't seem too mad...

Spot

Until I was 9 I believed high school was hice school.Even now I sometimes say hice school when I mean high school

Emmy

This is not about me. This kid who used to sit next to me was very stupid. Sorry haha. One day the teacher was explaining how the earth spun so slow we couldnt see it moving. This kid jumps up and screams "YOUR WRONG THE EARTH SPINS SO FAST THAT WE CANT SEE IT MOVING!!!" he started to shake his head rabidly.... Then he cut my pants with a scissor... My oh my. Kids are freaky.

Anon

When I was a kid, kids at school used to say that if you sharpened your pencils on both ends, later in life you'll get kids that're siamese twins conjoined at the lower torso. huh?

Qiddas

I used to think that the color orange was called pink, the color pink was called purple, and the color purple was called orange. Unfortunately my twin brother was messing with me when we were doing our school work when we were in preschool. I thought that until I was in first grade and my teacher had to spend quite a bit of time convincing me that I had the names wrong.

Really Nick? Thanks

I used to believe teachers wouldn't assign homework if someone missed class, because the missing student wouldn't know what to do, and that wouldn't be fair, would it? I actually missed a homework assignment in 4th grade because of this; I didn't bother checking on the blackboard for the assignment, because I just *knew* we didn't have any homework. My mom had to explain to me that the missing kid would have to make up the work when s/he got back to school, which I thought was just a travesty of justice.

joy

When I was in Kindergarten, I went to the first grade class for reading because my reading level was too high for all the Kindergarten reading books. We would do these dumb little packets every week with questions about the story and vocabulary and all that junk. I would always make 100's. A few times, though, I would make 99's or 98's. I would be so scared that if my parents found out that I didn't make a hundred, they would yell at me and spank me. So I would throw the 99's and 98's away, never to be seen by my parents.

Perfectionist Child

I used to believe that I was the only person in the world who could slouch. Sitting cross legged in class I would hunch my back over and feel superior to my classmates. I was crushed when one teacher took a special interest in teaching me posture.

Huncher

I was often bored in school during tests and so would fashion elaborate scenes in my head about the circles I needed to shade in. My favorite was that it was a mummy's tomb with a curse and the explorers had to 'escape' before 'smoke' filled it. Complete with screams while they died

Mrs Meg C

On my first day of Kindergarten (or maybe it was first grade) some of the kids
were really homesick and missing their mother. The teacher said to one kid:

"Go look out the classroom door and you will see your Mom"

"WOW!! I thought, A MAGIC WINDOW that let you see your Mom from school!"

Much later it dawned on me that this mom probably predicted her kid's behavior
and hung around to comfort him..

Wiser but Sadder..

The year before I started high school (when I was about 10/11), my best friend's older brother told us that all the older high schoolers went & had sex on the 5th floor (used 2 be an attic) in the one & only classroom up there. I used to believe it & wonder if people would wait till they could go in or if they'd all just go in & use different corners or something! Aah, the days when u trusted others!

CrazyCaledonianChick!

My sister is eight years older than me and when i enter Kindergarden she told me not to use the bathrooms because all the kids wipped their snot on the walls of the bathroom, so i remember i wouldn't even go into the bathroom during school.

Stephanie

I used to believe that if you were naughty at school then you'd have to go upstairs and sit on your bed!

Eve

I told my little sister, when she was 6 (she's 11 now) that I went to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry and for aaaaaages she believed me. I had a Harry Potter bag with the Hogwarts Crest on it and she said to me "woow Dumbledore must be really happy that you have a bag with the Hogwarts Crest on" I agreed with her and showed her the wand I bought from Diagon Alley, which was actually a stick I found in my garden! She still denies she ever believed me!

British and Proud, Collette

When I was 8, my dad told me we were moving to California and I'd be going to a "year-round" school. I thought that ment we would have to go to school every weekday all year with no breaks.

I was relieved to know we still had three months off, just not all during the summer.

"Year-Round" Kerri

Back before I was in public school, when i was in home school, because of various TV stereotypes, I believed that in college, there weren't actually classes. You just took college entrance exams and drank and ate pizza and went to wild parties while you were there. I'm here and I can assure you I'm doing none of those.

Troy

I used to believe that at an After School Detention the teachers would lock you into a closet and make you do your work.

Gabby Howe

In 5th grade, I had a health test, and one of the questions was "How many hours of sleep per night is it recommended a human try to get?"
Rather than look up the answers in the book while studying, I asked my dad, to which he said "13", joking of course.
I put this as the answer on my test, which I obviously failed. When getting my graded test back, outside of the hours of sleep per night question, my teacher had circled "13" and in bright red markers added "Is this why you are not doing well in school????"

Anon