Fuck spelling

I can't help but think that there is some kind of covert operation occuring aimed at brainwashing mankind into thinking that spelling = education. Everywhere I turn there is some spelling ploy: a movie, Akeelah and the Bee, which I assume is about a little girl named Akeelah and her touching story of winning a spelling bee. Great. Every time I walk into Starbucks I'm slapped in the face with an interesting word, a word like prospicience and I instantly look around for the definition and find none. It is SO irritating. What good does it do me to know what a word looks like, read: how to spell it if I don't know what it means?
The problem was exasperated by a commentation I heard on NPR this evening about the importance of teaching the multi-colored youth of America to spell. The commentator argued at length on how if we as a nation did not teach the "multi-colored" (a term he frequently used) youth of America to spell we would end up with "crabby old white people" and ignorant colored people. He concluded his opinion by painting a picture of what he envisioned the future of multi-colored America to be: a green eyed, brown skinned, dirty blonde with dreadlocks. Cute, huh?
What does spelling have to do with it? Spelling in modern society is useless. One word will justify my last sentence: spellcheck. If not spellcheck, a dictionary. I say we teach kids the meaning of the word, and if necessary, how to remember how to spell it by referring to its root. Something a little more intelligent than memorizing the order letters appear to form a word.