Actually, he’s right. I read the gibberish with no problem. The mind and how it works are beautiful things.
You see you have to know how to read FIRST to figure out what the words could mean. And you can not decipher them with the same fluidity that you can words that are spelled properly. Which means you are not actually READING. You are attempting to figure out what some illiterate jerk is trying to say. And it is undoubtedly not worth it.
I know that people who want children illiterate are desperate to try to show that it is all the kids fault not that of the teachers but they are as usual wrong. There is a right and wrong way to teach someone to read, not just know what a string of meaningless symbols represent.