This is the transcript of the interview the mother, Sue Aldred, gave John Humphrys of BBC Radio 4's Today programme.

John Humphrys: As I understand it your son did go back to school after that independent board ruling.

Mother: He did indeed.

Humphrys: And was he taught in a classroom or what?

Mother: He was not taught as such. Him and the other boy were put in a room with a supply teacher. Work has been set for him and as far as I'm concerned it's being marked by teachers.

Humphrys: I should point out the boys are 15.

Mother: My son is 16 now.

Humphrys: So they are at the moment being taught but what will you do this morning, it's 10 past eight now, are you going to send him to school after what Ms Morris said yesterday?

Mother: I'm not sending him into school, I didn't send him into school yesterday either, but it has nothing to do with what Ms Morris is saying. I just feel it would not be of benefit for my son to be school in view of all the media and press coverage.

Humphrys: But that is just for the moment?

Mother: That is just for the moment absolutely. I'm making it quite clear that as far as I'm concerned my child is still a member of Glyn School.

Humphrys: Wasn't it right that he was excluded? What they did - making 44 messages, apparently, on the teacher's answering machine, one of them saying you're going to die soon, you're going to get stabbed in the back of the head'. Surely boys that do that sort of thing should be excluded from school?

Mother: I think boys that do that sort of thing should be punished in some way but I do feel that a permanent exclusion is not the answer to this.

Humphrys: What, for threatening a teacher in that way? Threatening that they will be killed?

Mother: I do not consider that the threat of death to Mr Taverner was meant to be a threat of death. It was purely to wind the teacher up. I do appreciate and I do not condone any case of this nature.

I have got to make this quite clear now, my son was in the wrong, and we have actually said he is wrong, he has apologised to the teacher in writing but he has so far not had any acknowledgement of that.

Humphrys: But you have to wonder, do you not, what a child has to do to be expelled if not making a death threat to a teacher. Surely that is at the very top of the scale, is it not?

Mother: Yes it is but then it's not when you have got the teacher on the other hand making a statement, and Mr Taverner did actually make the statement that when he knew it was these boys that made those phonecalls the threat of death was no longer there. He knew that these boys were not capable of threatening death to him. He did not feel threatened.

Humphrys: No but to get those sort of messages on your telephone, not just one or two, not just a quick prank, 44 of them.

Mother: Yes, all 44 of them were not made by those two boys, let me just make that clear. There was a third boy involved.

Humphrys: But nonetheless they were involved in what must have been a dreadful experience for that teacher.

Mother: Yes, absolutely, and I do not condone it any way.

Humphrys: What should happen to them in your view? How should they be punished?

Mother: Do you not feel that they have been punished enough? They have missed five months of schooling now in what is an important year. Year 11 is a crucial year for those boys, they are due to take their GCSEs in the next few months. They are ill-prepared because they have not had any schooling at all. It is just a nightmare at the moment.

Humphrys: Well, what if they were to be taught in some different way. You could understand surely that the teachers at that school and the head teacher and the teacher himself do not want those boys back. Surely you should accept they must find another way, or another way should be found, for them to be educated somewhere else.

Mother: Right, a pupil referral unit is completely out of the question as far as I'm concerned.

Humphrys: Why?

Mother: I do not feel that my son would get the results that he would in mainstream school. It is a very limited education in a pupil referral unit. You are only allowed to take up to three examinations whereas in mainstream schools you can get 10.

Also when you come to the fact about how the teachers feel, I have got someone from the Communities Empowerment unit who was prepared, and always has been, to go into the school and work with the school.

Humphrys: The teachers themselves are not prepared to have these boys back, are they, and that is the problem, and you can understand that.

Mother: I can understand that some of the teachers are not prepared to teach these boys, some of them, but I don't for one minute believe every single teacher in that school refuses to teach these boys.

Humphrys: Let's be clear, what are you going to do? They are not going in today, they did not go in yesterday. Monday, Tuesday of next week? What are you going to do next week?

Mother: Well, we are having meetings with the education authority. I will just have to see what happens over the weekend, but as far as I'm concerned my son is entitled to go back to Glyn School.

We went to appeal, that appeal panel took a day and a half to come to a decision and that decision is legally binding on all parties and all parties knew this before we went to appeal.