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"Why teach spelling when we have spelling checkers?"

You guessed it, this poem made it through both the spelling and grammar checkers of a popular word processor...

Their wants was a spelling checker
 Installed on my pea sea.
 It tolled me wen I mist a word
 As U ken plane lee C.

 It cot most awl the air roars
 I maid wen I did rite.
 I fell sew good two have it
 I sleep reel good at nit.

 When tea chars awl decide to reed
 My riding, they'll awl say,
 "This buoy is a reel good rioter
 We'll awl give him an aye."

Dr. Miles C. Olson

So, you can see that it is vitally important for people of all ages to be able to spell. Tools alone - while very helpful - can't do the whole job.