"4. "Everyone can learn to spell!" Yes -- in Germany. But here literally ten million children compete in the Bee and 9,999,999 misspell a word and drop out, before one is declared champion. If you think one in ten million is everyone you must have taken New Math."
The logic here is dizzingly stupid. You're pointing to a system that is designed to single out one person out of ten million, and saying that it's success means that spelling in too hard. That's like saying we should reform the presidential election system because only one man out of all of the nominees and candidates succeeds in becoming president.
Not everyone can become president but everyone should be able to master spelling, as they do in other countries.
(Almost everyone; obviously the retarded and some intelligent ultra-dyslexics cannot.)
But this was mainly in answer to the common objection that "Everyone can master spelling, if they just try a little!" No they can't, as the Bee proves.