How important do you think spelling is?

Have a chat to a student these days and you will find that most of them almost always rely on spell check. I think that spelling is terribly important for everyone. The topic should be taken seriously and we all should try and correct our misplaced capital letters or the odd missing full stop. Furthermore when people are reading a CV and they come across an error or punctuation laps how is that going to help them pick that recipient. It would certainly lower their status and probably the paper would be put at the bottom of the pile. Back in the day spelling was considered very important, it was a very vital tool in life and people were expected to be good spellers. However now with all this “new technology” like computers and spell check, the sense of this old expectation has completely changes