That's fuckin insane, right!? Creative linguistics.
I corrected my kid every time - and we did spelling tests - and (this has also vanished) dictation!! I was told that was a now useless skill - except it teaches kids grammar and style and spelling, all on the sly and together. ;-) teachers are so fuckin smart, eh!? And my kid enjoys dictation - weirdly, coz it looks like her work - is her hand doing the writing, so she can see what it's like to write properly. All "useless skills" no doubt.
Like when I teach my kid maths - here it is - one page - maybe 5 concepts - that's a whole 30-page chapter!! "But that's so easy!" she says. "Yes, it is!" I smile.
We ended up doing bits of A-level work just coz if you follow a train of thought you end up going outside the little syllabus box. But so what? That's fun!
The thing about being clueless about spelling is that it goes hand in hand with being inarticulate (I do know a few exceptions of very smart dyslexics) - these are not typos, they are just manifested ignorance.
My kid has now got into the etymology of words, something not obvious here as latin and greek are as popular as Sanskrit.
so we start: dystopia - disturbing - disorganised - disappointed - discord - disease etc etc lmao
The box is a prison, in engineering there simply is no box - only something better if you think outside that prison, if there was not, we would all still drive a model T Ford.
And motorbikes would still look like a glorified cycle.
Penny farthing anyone or mountain bike.
The problem with "modern schooling" is you cannot challenge what you are told, I did at school and got detention for it every time I did it.
My RE teacher in particular detested me for giving alternative notions/ideas with regards to the bible and the "stories" in it.
I got detention when he stated the feeding of the 5000 text, I said when alleged Jesus was willing to share his food, his alleged followers felt guilty and shared theirs, bam there you go, 1 week in detention.