Idaho Students Forced To Learn Morse Code

In case you haven't heard, if you have children enrolled in Idaho schools, they'll be learning cursive soon!

Even if you don't want them to. Even if they don't want to. Too bad. It's now a part of what they'll be taught and tested on in Idaho Schools.

That's right. Even though no one has written anything by hand since 2009, your children will have to know how to write in cursive moving forward. You know, in case they have to sign a check.

Well, that got us thinking: What other archaic outdated forms of communication could our children be learning? If you're thinking of Morse Code, jinxies!

Um, what's Morse Code?

We're so glad you asked! Wikipedia, if you please:

Morse code is a telecommunications method which encodes text characters as standardized sequences of two different signal durations, called dots and dashes, or dits and dahs. Morse code is named after Samuel Morse, one of the early developers of the system adopted for electrical telegraphy.

You know, the old tapping technology they used during wars back 100+ years ago? Yes, that Morse Code.

Maybe it'd be a good idea for our kids to learn if...there's...an emergency?

If you're with us, and believe we should contact our locally elected officials, holler.

Don't want your kids being forced to read cursive? Then you're going to hate when you find out what's happening with electric school busses.

It's not that they're coming to take your kids to school. They're already here.

Damn. That sounded like a horror movie. Cool.