beyhond the heresy of breaking spaghetti (burn the witch!), the really annoying thing is how proud she is of that, like she discovered the secret of life or something! Unless you work in a professional kitchen, your pot will always be lower than spaghetti: usually you put them in and after a couple of seconds, when they begin to soften, you push them under. Or you could avoid the problem completely, and use fusilli or penne... also, it has been scientifically proven that spaghetti doesn't brake in halves, but shatter in a number of fragments
https://www.aps.org/newsroom/pressreleases/ig-nobel-2006.cfm