Shood we chanje English spelling?

As I was researching the pronunciation rules of the Irish language (which still utterly stymies me) , I stumbled across a site which makes a certain amount of sense (even as I blanch at their word re-spelling proposals because they seem "wrong" . . . we are, indeed, prisoners of our upbringing).

The Simplified Spelling Society includes these interesting stats:

• Even after 11 years at school barely half of all English speakers become confident spellers.
• Italian children can spell accurately after just 2 years at school.
• Italy has only half as many identified dyslexics as England.

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• The EE-sound, for example, can be spelt as in: seem, team, convene; sardine, protein, fiend; people,he, key, ski; debris, quay

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• English spells many identical sounds differently when they occur in different positions in a word.
• For example, the Sh-sound is spelt as in shop, station, vicious and session; the long A-sound as in plate and play; the long I-sound as in mine and dry.
• For this reason English has 90 basic, dominant spelling patterns for its 43 speech sounds.
• 84 of the 90 basic English spelling patterns have exceptions.

. . . . and much more in a well-written argument at the site. If you suck at spelling, here's a site you'll want to bookmark 'cause IT'S NOT YOUR FAULT! (grin) Now challenge yourself - take a look at one of their pages done with the re-spelling proposals - can you read it?