The cost of poor spelling

It's official. Poor spelling is costing the economy dear. Why? Because when people go onto websites to buy goods and services the first question they are concerned with is the credibility of the website. If the spelling is poor, then people do not want to buy. It's as simple as that. I blame it on so-called phonetic methods. I knew one kid who had begun to learn with the traditional 'ay bee cee' method and was then taught 'ah buh cuh duh'. He was so confused he became dyslexic. It's time to take literacy teaching out of the hands of the illiterate and start recruiting teachers who know how to spell. I'm afraid very few do. My step daughter's English teacher was a case in point: he failed to correct her spelling when it was poor and actually tried to 'correct' words which were correctly spelled. Typical of our half-literate educational establishment, I'm afraid.