So, without telling us anything here, you are for” phonics.”
That’s at least what your article actually suggests.
Yes, of course. English is a phonetic language. A little battered and bruised after all these centuries. But as phonetic as ever. The Look-say sophistry was simply to declare that English was NOT a phonetic language and that our words must be learned as graphic designs. A non-sequitur that resulted in 50,000,000 functional illiterates.