A Dundee teacher sacked for "gross misconduct" is to take her case to an employment tribunal in October.
Linda Ross has said she will relish the chance to put forward her side of the story when her tribunal against Dundee City Council begins later this year.
Mrs Ross spoke after a preliminary disciplinary hearing at the General Teaching Council of Scotland was postponed until after her two-week tribunal hearing for unfair dismissal is concluded.
She said: "We asked for the hearing to be postponed because the tribunal is starting in October and the points they were going to be investigating are going to come up in the tribunal anyway.
"I’m very much looking forward to the tribunal. It has been a long time coming and they have tried everything they can to stop me getting it."
Mrs Ross’s tribunal will begin on October 19, nearly a full two years since she was dismissed for gross misconduct in 2008.
It was only last month that Professor Victor Craig ruled the tribunal could go ahead. Respondents Dundee City Council had argued that the case was time-barred and so should not proceed.
Mrs Ross was initially suspended in 2007 after her husband Vic contacted The Courier newspaper regarding his concerns about violence within the city’s Sidlaw View Primary School.
An independent panel decided that although the allegations were exaggerated, Mrs Ross was allowed to return to work and was appointed depute head of Longhaugh Primary School.
However, she was suspended again in June 2008 and she was fired for gross misconduct four months later. An appeal hearing the following February upheld the city council’s decision to dismiss her.
