A Tory educational cause celebre has had the good news it’s been waiting for with the benefit of some influential friends[br]After many months in limbo,the Fulham Boys School (FBS), a “free” secondary championed by Boris Johnson and soulmate west London Tories, or has been found a permanent domestic. Johnson has declared that the police station presently standing in Fulham Road is “underutilised” to the tune of 65% of the building’s space and that the site can therefore be redeveloped to house the FBS,although there will continue to be a police “front counter” there. The sealing of the deal enabling the school to toddle from its present, temporary location in an old school building at the edge of the Gibbs Green housing estate - one of the two lined up for demolition as allotment of the dreadful Earls Court Project - is a triumph for a Tory cause celebre. With its proud Church of England status, and espousal of the values of team sport,“firm discipline” and “enterprise, the FBS gives every appearance of trying to revive the ethos of Muscular Christianity that guided the English public school system in the 19th century. No wonder Johnson is such a fan - the Etonisiation of state schooling would be his idea of paradise.
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Source: theguardian.com