I, too, learned this in Elementary school...and this is what I said to my family members when I first heard of Barack Obama in Jan or Feb, 2008 before is birth certificate was ever mentioned. What concerned me was his father was a student here on visa. Therefore, he was not eligible to run for President.
correction to previous post: “before his birth certificate was ever mentioned”
Jude, I didn't learn it in Elementary school, but did in 2008. The birth certificate is almost certainly, like a magician's slight of hand - “watch the hand I'm waving around” - the distraction from the truth you learned, but few others did, or recalled. You may not recall that it was a Hillary soldier, a lawyer named Berg, who created the birth certificate distraction, talking in public about Kenya and birth certificates exclusively, even in one of the earliest news conferences before inauguration, at which Orly Taitz clearly explained Article II, pointing out Berg's omission, and naïve about the legal trouble it would be his business to cause her for the next five years. Orly proceeded to look for and find tangible fraud, I believe because she is no more familiar than most lawyers, which means very little, with historical Constitutional law, Article II and the 14th Amendment.
Only one other president failed the Article II Section 1 requirement, Chester Arthur, and was only exposed in 2009 by one of the few lawyers, Leo Donofrio, appalled with the failure of legal ethics that kept congress and the judiciary silent as lawmakers evaded the Constitution - as Justice Thomas explained while being questioned by Senator Menendez, one of the signatories of Senate Resolution 511, claiming that that framers really would have made John McCain a natural born citizen had they known how valiant and useful he was to the Democrat party. (OK, not quite what SR 511 said, but they all know the truth and every senator signed it, save MaCain, since it was about his eligibility, and have gone to remarkable lengths to keep the public from discussing their deception and complicity.)
This thread may be such a distraction. The original reference is to nonsense about the intentions of John Brennan's employee, as if three employees of a Muslim, former assistant director of the CIA happen to be searching for information for an identity fraud business. To be working in state department archives at the level of senior senators required at least a top secret clearance. The real question is how the State Department and CIA cleared the Muslim convert's company for access to extremely sensitive data. Another real question is what is the religious background of Lieutenant Charles Quarles? Could he have volunteered his life in the war to reassert the primacy of the Caliphate, and by implication, Allah? We had been at war with Iraq, and had the World Trade center bombed (1993) by Jihadi bombers led by one the most important Wahhabi Imams, the "Blind Sheik" from Egypt, then based in New Jersey, and now in prison. The credit card story was a crude cover. The web site referenced by this thread was full of nonsense.
The issue is exactly what you learned about, and happened to be the topic of two senate actions sponsored by Obama, Leahy, Hillary, Conway, Hernandez, and others, to make McCain eligible and thus seal the lips of any Republican tempted to honor his or her oath to preserve, protect, and defend, the oath not just sworn by the president, by congressmen and military officers, all of whom have violated their oaths, admittedly against an aggressive enemy, but failed nevertheless.