Rarely do I see such arrogance combined with such a profound lack of knowledge about a topic. Ah, but this is the internet, where everyone gets to pretend that his opinion is sound. You sound exactly like a government school employee.
Wow. A personal attack. Never thought I'd see that on the internet. I especially like the guilt by association trick with the government school employee crack. Projecting much? There are better ways to win an argument or engage in intelligent discourse.
Despite that you charged me with lack of knowledge, my only factual point -- that English is an amalgam of Romance, Germanic and Celtic languages (among others) -- is unassailable. Much of it is phonics-based. On the other hand, much of it can only be forced into a phonics-based mold by creating so many rules that it simply isn't worth while. The complexity makes the system worthless at that point and other systems work better. Phonics-only, to the exclusion of everything else, is nothing more than blind, unreasoning faith. Rather than arrogance, I've adopted a position of humility, knowing that I don't have the perfect system that will always deliver 100% reading skill for every child all the time. I'm sorry to say that for arrogance, the irony of your screen name in this context is palpable.