I was a pupil at Blatchington Mill School 35 years ago when it was Hove Grammar.

I well remember the school organising a talk for the whole upper school by the local Tory MP during a local council election campaign.

I remember thinking then how odd this was. There was no one from the other side.

Now, 35 years later, during a war which is deeply loathed all over the world, the head organises an event at which only the local pro-war MP, Ivor Caplin, is invited.

Nothing has changed.

If a group of schoolchildren intervened to stop a child being bullied or to protect an injured animal, they would be praised.

Yet when a group of schoolchildren walk out to demonstrate their opposition to a bullying and wicked war, in which other children are suffering, they are victimised by the headmaster.

Neil Hunter's action in suspending his pupils is unfair and yobbish.

Those schoolchildren's walk-out showed them to be thoughtful and responsible.

They deserve praise, not blame.

-David Bangs, Ewhurst Road, Brighton