"Okay, first, I hate to be a Marian the Librarian, but you don’t feel badly, you feel bad." ~John Oliver
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This particular mistaken teacher is not the first person to be mistaken about these words, but here she is, passing her mistake along unchecked to her kiddos.
With all due respect to Elizabeth Elstob, "that Mistake is justly exploded."
As I reminded you at the end of the Starting Points post, remember that we're aiming for conceptual depth and understanding, not for perfect accuracy all the time in spelling.
Remember kids, you cannot understand the system from looking at single words. You must look at words in their families in order to understand the system, every single time. Always. Without fail.