Iowa Bill: Students Don’t Need to Learn About Voting

http://www.nationofchange.org/public-high-school-students-won-t-learn-about-voting-government-class-if-iowa-bill-becomes-law-13629

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.”

Under the measure, public high school students in Iowa would learn about “national, state, county, and local governments” without receiving instruction in voting procedures or methods: