In fact you'd have to reconsider whether the unique spelling doesn't actually help reading. Between beat and beet it's surely easier to differentiate; Between r

In fact you'd have to reconsider whether the unique spelling doesn't actually help reading. Between beat and beet it's surely easier to differentiate; Between read and had read not so much, granted, but: With phonetic spelling, considering all the different dialects, you'd get written dialects and from that, potentially divergent spelling for pronunciations that are actually equal, just to fit one system or another. I've seen some proposals, one involving a new charset - I didn't like any of these, especially as the hints at the history of the word have some value, too, not to a first grader, but it surely helps. You can't erase that history, and piling onto it wouldn't make it any easier. The result is that american language as a whole tends to simplify and ... substitute complicated words for ... with ... scrap that ... tends to replace long words with shorter ones. That's a general tendency in language I suppose. We got into this mess because everyone wrote as they saw fit (slightly exegarating here). In that light loosening the rules again would seem counterproductive. Be careful with the argument. The dyslexia might have more factors in play. The American school system isn't actually famous for its success, but I'm in no position to blame it. The trend is going away from reading to video and voice, so I'm not sure how long the issue will remain.