Tools to "Teach" Citizenship

Why so many are upset about our education system.

Here is an example of teaching aids from EdHelper.org, an example of how citizenship is taught in the USA LINK

Being a Good Citizen By Phyllis Naegeli 1 What is a citizen? If you were born in the United States, you are a citizen. That means you are a member of our country. Sometimes people who are not born here want to become citizens. They do this by asking the government to make them a citizen. This is called naturalization. 2 When you are a citizen you have rights. Rights are special privileges the government gives you. In our country, you have free speech. You are also given the right to choose a religion. In America, the press is free to tell you what is happening in the world. The Bill of Rights lists the freedoms given to citizens. These rights are very important. Many people in the world do not have freedoms like we do. 3 Because the government gives us rights, we have the duty to be good citizens. But, what does it mean to be a good citizen? How can you be a part of giving back for the freedom you have?

A right is the sovereignty to act without the permission of others. The concept of a right carries with it an implicit, unstated footnote: you may exercise your rights as long as you do not violate the same rights of another—within this context, rights are an absolute.
Since when did rights become "special privileges the government gives you"?

Forget what the Declaration Of Independence says, Forget what the Constitution says, Forget what the Federalist Papers said about what the constitution means.

Our schools are teaching our children that the Government grants rights, therefore you have a Duty to the government.

Kids can and do get through high school without ever reading the Declaration of independence. They are taught and believe that the Government gives them rights, and that the Government has power over individuals, not that the government is grated very limited powers from the people for specific purposes.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.

Not being taught these words and what they mean it's no wonder the young people today don't understand Liberty. They don't even understand the fact that We the People not the government have the power and authority. That we created a constitution so that, the people, not the government, are in control of our own lives.

The people established a constitution that gives the government a few distinct and limited powers. Not that the government has all the power and gives rights to the people.

The preamble establishes why and what kind of government we wanted.

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

How do we ever expect this experiment in liberty called the United States of America is to ever survive, if we are teaching our children that rights are gifts of the government and not unalienable?