From Phonics to Phonetics

Phonics has gained certain popularity in kids English Education, while phonetics is an academic subject in a college as a part of linguistics. We, high school English teachers, are to bridge Phonics and Phonetics.
"Was gross ist am Menschen, das ist, dass er eine Brücke und kein Zweck ist:" (http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext05/8zara10.txt) ["What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not an end:"(Friedrich Nietzsche, Walter Kaufmann trans., "Thus Spoke Zarathustra --- A Book for None and All", 1954, New York, USA, p.15)]
It is an honor of us, high school teachers, to be a bridge.