I share the same sentiments. At lower levels it's useful in the sense that it teaches children how to write commonly spoken English words (since English has non

I share the same sentiments. At lower levels it's useful in the sense that it teaches children how to write commonly spoken English words (since English has non-phonemic orthography). But competitively, we enter the territory of words that are never, if ever, spoken out loud, except perhaps by specialists, so it's doubtful that these words have a standard English pronunciation.