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