Citizenship to me is very controversial. It is someone who is involved within their community, someone who votes, helps those in need, is compassionate, a functioning member of society, contributing, challenges issues, and one who finds importance in creating equity within our society. However in many ways that is not what is intended for us to be. Many like to think that we are teaching children to be leaders and showing them how to fight for what is morally right within society, but no one is actually giving them the tools and teaching them the strategies they need in order to becoming the citizen we hope for. To explain more in many times when a child is facing some sort of discrimination within the classroom and they speak up about it to a superiority figure within the school, many times they are told that they will handle when in fact it is not. Another thing to note instead of teaching kids how to critically think on their own or see the world in their own ways, we are teaching them how to sit quietly and still and figure out what their educators are thinking, and when they do not get it right they fail. Being a citizen is about being this amazing person who is helpful and fights for others rights, but at the same time when one dose those things they are seen as bad citizens.