Thread by @textfiles

An article went by talking about Qanon-infused teachers passing on conspiracies to their students. So it's time to ask:

What's the most bonkers thing your schoolteacher, yeah THAT one, told you, Elementary School Edition?

4th grade teacher told us that drinking orange juice in the mornings would eventually kill us, because our bodies were not designed to withstand cold liquid into our stomachs that early in the morning.

As a sequel, on "Hat Day" where we all got to wear Hats (and mine was taken away, because it was a boot), the other teachers were cool with it, but this one explained to us that as 50% of our body heat leaves through our heads, wearing our hats all day would overheat our brains.

For what it's worth, I consider her a critical lesson in "Hey, sometimes you're going to be fed clunkers, and you gotta do a little bit of heavy lifting yourself to track down the facts."

Shout-out to the teachers who tried their best to tell a bunch of children complicated subjects and it was doomed from the start, though. I had a teacher try to explain to us in 1980 about Nixon resigning and why, and we were 10