John Swinney can mess around with the structures till doomsday and can pour out rhetoric about empowering headteachers and patients, but the fact remains that we need more money going into classrooms to support teaching and learning. I know that Mr Swinney visits schools. I do not know what teachers tell him but, when I visit schools and ask teachers what their priorities are, they consistently tell me that they need more classroom assistants and more support in the classroom to support teaching and learning.