As you may have seen here, an academic has suggested that words which are wrongly spelt should be accepted as ‘variant spellings’.

I’m not swayed by the argument, to be honest (it smacks slightly of just making it easier for exam papers to be marked), but more to the point, I question Mr Smith’s commitment to it as well; if he really meant it, surely he should have said “Insted of complayning abowt the stayte of the educayshun sistem…”