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Sen. Grassley's grandson introduces bill censoring voting from civics education
And you thought civics education was already dumbed down in American public schools. But now Iowa State Rep. Pat Grassley, whose grandfather is US Sen. Chuck Grassley, has introduced a crazy new bill in the state legislature as Think Progress reports:
Iowa state Rep. Pat Grassley (R) — the grandson of Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) — introduced a bill earlier this week that increases the amount of instruction in government and “the tenets of American citizenship” in the state’s high school social studies curriculum, but specifically eliminates “the high school social studies requirement to teach voting procedures.”