If FH Boys - Specialist School in Performing Arts - allows the children full choice of subjects and the performing arts are largely optional, (as presumably they were before the specialisation) then I'm not certain what specialisation actually means in practice.

Did specialisation just allow schools to borrow money to improve some facilities - facilities that can also be made available to the local community (for a price)? Certainly sports and performing arts facilities will have wider use than rooms of fully equipped fume cupboards.

I have no objection to school facilities being shared this way (as a background activity) and wish SLK every success in promoting them.

What I do object to is the very title/motto of the school being changed, without local consultation, as this must eventually change the focus and expectations of the children/parents/teachers of the school towards the performing arts.

This will suit many of the children, but currently there is no other local choice and I still think that if somehow another boys school opened in se23 (with the same ethos), but specialised in maths/technology instead, then it would be over subscribed by X10.