She said the school was always willing to review cases with the Teaching Agency, which is responsible for the recruitment, initial training and supply of teachers.

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Consider what we are teaching young people from the following cases involving Pop Warner football, which have arisen lately.

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It was a re-assuring message for Scottish parents but in my conversations with headteachers, I was getting another, and quite different, explanation as to why the General Teaching Council was dealing with so few cases of incompetence.

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The academic year has been lopped to a mere four months (in some cases just three), while teaching material, affordable housing and capable lecturers are in very short supply.

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Many state and federal court cases have not only prohibited the teaching of creationism and intelligent design in public-school classrooms, but have also restrained teachers from introducing arguments against evolution in contravention of a school district's curriculum.

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Our children don't need new schemes that are supposed to do this or that, we need a return to the old-fashioned values of discipline and proper teaching, coupled with the more understanding culture towards special needs cases that we have today.

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He proposed setting up local determination panels (LDPs) to deal with such cases, but they were dropped from the bill after criticism from a number of sources, including teaching unions.

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