@halva english spelling is not perfectly logical, but I was still taught "this letter sounds like that", and the assumption was that you'd figure out the exceptions after learning the general case.
my guess is that it became trendy to ditch this method several years ago due to some bullshit scientific study or something. if you're a public school and you try a "new" method like logographic spelling, you'll appear more cutting-edge and maybe that leads to an increase in funding.
@genmaicha@halva like in Poland we of course learn stuff letter by letter, maybe outside of dyslexic people where iirc they learn syllable by syllable I think? but like even with doing it again for English I think anyone who lived long enough in the Internet is more literate than american gen z
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