I thought it was a joke

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I had a teacher tell us one time that if we didn't do our homework that we'd have some small insect dropped into our ears and it would eat away our brains and we'd die. This was like 2nd grade, she got replaced mid-year for some reason. It might have been the time when she said that we'd all be taken from our parents and put into slave camps if we didn't have perfect attendance.