No one is out to get you. But somebody you use it to get you someday.
I do agree that the kids are less paranoid about surveillance. And I think that's a severe flaw on their education.
From the government's point of view, lowering the degree to which people are upset about what the government is doing is a feature of the education system, not a bug.
When we took this, IIRC, the primary perceived risk wasn't necessarily the government coming after us, but rather the school or teachers finding out.