The Three R's - repost

Why are we teaching the "three R's"? That doesn't make sense. That would be reading riting and rithmatic. Which i guess would explain a lot of test scores. But if you want to be real about it, what we're really teaching is Writing, Arithmetic and Reading, and if you want an acronym: WAR. We're teaching war, which is probably why we're so eager to wage war. And we're good at it too. But INSURGENCY is too many letters, take too long for our kids to learn. That'd be like Integers, Numbers, Science, Useful shit like math, Reading, Golf (which should be a priority), Emergency Medicine, Neurosurgery, Calligraphy and Yak milking. Way too much for the average Junior High curriculum.