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[John Baltutis]

On 07/27/04, Steve Talkowski wrote:
>
>>Think yourself lucky, a few years after I left school - the kids were
>>taught to spell phonetically. These people are now in the work place -
>>cheering us up with mispelt words. I think if you are expecting
>>everyone to spell and use words correctly then you are going to be
>>upset sometimes. Ignore it or live with it.
>>Its the little differences that make people interesting.

You've got it backwords. Learning to spell/read phonetically leads to
correctness, whereas the whole language approach is the one leaving our
youth illiterate, as demonstrated daily in education reports.