About TSS
About me This Site is about Private and Public Schools in Queensland. The Author Peter H Bloecker worked from 1998-2005 for Education Queensland in the LOTE Centre in the function of the German Language Advisor funded by the Goethe-Institut Munich and the Foreign Office in Berlin (AA). Example only. Example Anglican Boys’ College TSS TSS Campus Southport | Credit phb Credit phb Credit phb The Southport School and the Persistence of Educational Privilege: A Comparative Critique of Elite Secondary Education in Britain, Germany, and Australia The campus map of The Southport School spreads before the observer like a cartographic representation of educational aspiration rendered in brick, mortar, and carefully maintained playing fields. Founded in 1901 during the late colonial period when Queensland was barely forty years removed from its separation from New South Wales, TSS positioned itself from inception as an antipodean outpost of British public school traditions. The term “public school” in this context carries its peculiar English paradox, denoting institutions that are in fact highly private, selective, and expensive, serving as gatekeepers to social mobility while simultaneously functioning as mechanisms for its restriction. The architectural and institutional DNA of TSS derives directly from the Victorian reconfiguration of older British grammar schools, establishments that had existed since medieval and early modern periods as charitable foundations intended to provide classical education to promising boys regardless of economic circumstance. The nineteenth century…