No doubt, as a teacher, I'm biased. However, the school is 100 per cent correct in expelling these two. Some people seem incapable of accepting the consequences of their behaviour. With reference to the appeal panel who re-instated them, all I can say is that the lunatics are taking over the asylum.
Michael Clark, Alloa, Clackmananshire

No.. those boys should NOT go back to a proper school. Even my children think it's a bad idea. The teacher involved will have lost all respect if they are allowed to return.
C.Pascoe, Southampton

You stated that no support has been expressed by any of your viewers for Mrs Aldred's situation. I would like to do so. The permanent exclusion of a child is, clearly, an extreme measure, because of the serious impact it is likely to have on a child's future. The members of these Panels are highly-trained, highly-principled lay members of their local community. They must work within strict legal and procedural frameworks. In this case, Mrs Aldred has said that the Panel took more than a day to consider all the evidence. Your viewers are in possession of none of this evidence, yet seem happy to come to conclusions based on nothing more than news headlines.
Name supplied

As a newly qualified teacher aged 23, I find it terribly intimidating teaching at some schools. (I am a peripetetic teacher). One particular school I teach in regularly scares me. The students will not listen either to me, or to fellow teachers with many more years' experience. The local 'bush" says that this school is for children whose parents cannot give a "toss". Revoking such a decision on expelling a student who has threatened a teacher is another nail in the coffin for our profession.
Harriet

What a terrifying precedent! What's happened to a teacher's right to work in a safe environment?
Sarah Bonney, Coventry

Afetr seeing your interview I feel the mother is only doing what any other parent would do - protecting her family. She neatly avoided answering the question of if she was on the receiving end would she like the perpetrators punished.
Nick, Southport

It's really important we find out what went on with the appeal panel. We're going down a dangerous road getting rid of them - but then again they need to be responsible (to society, not to schools). None of us would accept the boys' behaviour, and I wonder how the appeal panel did - is there more to this than meets the eye?
Philippa Poulson, Northampton

Those 'boys' who made death threats to a teacher are not 'normal' as one of the mothers says. Normal boys don't make abusive or threatening phone calls. They shouldn't only have been expelled they should be put away! There is something wrong with those kids and they need treatment
Peter Willetts, Dewsbury, Yorks

I fully support the headmaster's position in this case. Compare this to having a workmate or a member of your family receiving a death threat. Although the full facts may have not been exposed I have little confidence in the appeals panel.
Colin Young, Newark

I don't think the parents understand that any person over eighteen would have be arrested. And am afraid normal kids don't act like this.
Guilford Tulloch, Watford

The position of teachers are being underminded by such decisions by coucils who many cases do not understand the local situation. It gives a signal for certain pupils that they can do what they like and get away with it. The powers of the the school to deal with such matters have been taken away and problems have increased accordingly.
Bob Hill, Sheffield

I think the school should be big enough to take the children back and offer them extra help.
Mr Bradshaw, Preston