classes

I used to wonder why you would go to high school for two years as a freshman and sophomore, then have to go to junior high school when you were a junior, then back to regular high school when you were a senior.

Aaron

In first grade, My teacher told me that I shouldn't lean against the chalkboard because a former student who did the same was smashed by the chalkboard as thin as paper and in order to visit people he would have to fold up and mail himself. I was amazed and when I told my dad, he said she was kidding, but I believed her for years.

Holly W.

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

one time in the 4th grade i hade accidently poked a boy in the back with a sharp pencil.i immeditly said sorry and started 2 cry fearing the cops would come get me 4 giving the boy lead poisining.

victoria

When I was in elementary school all the students had to take a state-wide multiple choice test near the end of the school year. Occasionally one of the choices would be "All of the Above." I took things completely litteraly as a child and I had no idea what it meant. If I was sure I didn't know the correct answer I would pick "All of the Above" because it made it made as much sense as anything else. Now I think the tests should really be explained in more detail. "All of the Above" isn't known to every child.

Kim

When I was in first grade, I used to believe that the clear, flat marbles we used to decorate our vases with were contact lenses. I had seen my aunt wear contacts before, and I was convinced they were the same thing. In my classroom show-and-tell session, I showed the kids how many contact lenses I had. I was very offended when my teacher told me that I was mistaken.

Anon

I used to believe that numbers stopped at 99. To prove me wrong, I distinctly remember my older sister using our basement chalkboard to write every single number from 0 to 99, and then writing 100. This may or may not have convinced me at the time, but eventually I did learn the truth.

Teacher Nancy

Back in elementary, I was the only one on my class not to attend religious class. I had ethics class instead.

Once when I came back from my lesson, and found out the religion teacher had taught everyone, that I was a pagan (all they knew, that it was a bad word meaning someone that denied god). Everyone kept calling me that for a long time. An it wasn't nice!

anna k.

I used to believe there was secret chamber in our history classroom called kamerlik, and there was monster living there, who whispered "My preciousss" whole the time.

I realized it was only my imagination as they removed rectangular board which always seemed to be entrance to the kamerlik to me, and I understood there was nothing but regular wall behind it.

No more kamerlik

I used to believe that whenever I failed an exam, I'd fail my life. After that, I was nearly killed by a car once but survived somehow. I still fear it...

TG

When I was in my first year at school I went home and told my mother that the school nurse was going to be taking a picture of my feet because I had been told that we were having footographs

Anon

I use to believe that when I had a medical at school by the school nurse she would examin my testicles and if I had an erection she would whack my penis off with a ruler for being rude.

Graham

Every kid must have heard this at some time. 'You know they are taking the word gullible out of the dictionary.' We all believed it the first time, didn't we?

billy.b

My daughter asked why I didn't come to the school assemblies. I explained that it was difficult for mummy as I had to work. She then proceeded to tell me that I didn't know what I was missing out on as 'God' comes to the assemblies. I later realised that she was talking about the Priest!

Lesley

when i was little i thought that school was just a place where a bunch of kids sat down and the teacher told them random facts and they went home. psh i wish

Anon

When I was in playschool, I told my older sister, who must have been about 5 years old, and had never attended the playschool but had only ever seen it when she came with my mother to come pick me and my borther up, that the big beanbag seats were filled actually with the bodies of dead children, who the workers had killed, and the toilets were covered in blood and sick and that the workers lured kids into them and tortured and killed them, and that kdis were constantly disappearing. Also I told her that when playing in the sandbox me and my brother had discovered the bodies of children from the playschool buried under the sand, and she believed it ALL.

Anon

my mum used to always tlak about my much older family members going off to university. i thouhgt it was one huge building where everyone in the world went, and it had a picture of the globe on the front, like 'universal' the film people's symbol.

iwanttobegerman

In kindergarten, we only had to go to school for a half day, so I always wondered what all the other kids did when we were gone. I never understood that one day I would find out--I thought I'd be done with school after Kindergarten.

Heather

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

i beleive that William bridge elementary school was for students who wanted to learn on a bridge, and i thought that it was a stupid school cuz how would the students be a ble to learn on a bridge in the winter time when it was snowing

candace M.