Phonology - Will I ever teach students how their names are spelled in IPA?

It's always a struggle teaching children why they need to know about a particular subject. It's almost impossible to see what benefit knowing quadratic equations is to them, but then you show them it could be useful in determining the trajectory of a projectile and they'll start folding paper-planes with the hopes of them knowing exactly where it will land (at least that's what I did and the formula did not work at all! To be fair though, there are a billion other variables like air resistance but teenage me did not know it at the time). Well, why on earth did we suffer through a course where we had to basically relearn how to spell things?

There's an analogy I use very often, aeronautical engineers need not explain the workings of a plane to the pilot in order for him to be able to fly it. We possess the knowledge of how sounds are made by the language and it is very useful to us because English, which is extremely unpredictable, just became easier to decipher. You see, before phonology we had little reason why we have multiple suffixes for "not", those being "un-", "in-", or "im". When a kid asks why we say "impossible" and not "inpossible" many would say it's just how it is, but the reason is because our mouths have a hard time forming the "p" sound after an "n", but it's much easier to do so after the letter "m". There is a saying I adore by Albert Einstein that says "If You Can't Explain it to a Six Year Old, You Don't Understand it Yourself", but I digress. The point is phonology is one of those courses whose values are hidden. Many might see it as a study of why sounds in English are the way they are, but there is importance in helping our students see that as well and this makes it so that they'll be much more prepared when they encounter a new word they do not know how to pronounce.