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Santorum Blames Liberal Plot For Students’ Bad History Scores (VIDEO)

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All I can say about this clown is: Google the word –  Santorum

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Another day, another entry for Rick Santorum’s list of liberal conspiracies.

This time Santorum is arguing that the reason so few U.S. students perform well in U.S. history is because of “a conscious effort on the part of the left who has a huge influence on our curriculum, to desensitize America to what American values are so they’re more pliable to the new values that they would like to impose on America.”

Santorum was speaking to the Story County GOP Central Committee in Iowa, and referenced a report that found that only 13% of high school seniors nationally are proficient in history. Only 22% of fourth-grade students and 18% of eighth-graders were proficient.

“How can we be a free people?” Santorum asked. “How can we be a people that fight for America if we don’t know who America is or what we’re all about?”

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