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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Folks here are totally proving the OP right.

If you haven’t worked in a school it’s hard to understand how unbelievably kids can misunderstand some things. Here are some that I’ve heard from middle schoolers: that caffeine is the same as alcohol so teachers who drink coffee in class are constantly drunk, that teachers have a hidden room where they take students and beat them, and that there are cameras in school so they can send you to jail if you’re late to class.[/quote]
Hahaha! I call that kid culture. Parents sometimes forget that their kids are getting information and ideas from many places other than home. Their perceptions of what’s important or what consequences will be can be totally distorted by their peer group. They get some really batshit crazy beliefs from each other, and it colors their perceptions of what should be an otherwise unremarkable interaction. They also somehow simultaneously believe teachers are omniscient, but know nothing.

You definitely need to not always take what kids say at face value. They may be existing in a parallel reality on the issue at hand.[/quote]

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