To think this dream job is just sad.

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MN posted a link with a ‘dream job’ so of course I clicked it and when I saw the insane salary I read on.

It just made me so sad.

It feels like they’ve had children just to moulded them into what they think is the perfect person.

They waited too long for the 5yo, so now they’re starting on the 1yo.

Its like something out if a movie where babies are bred and moulded into a certain design.

Why not let kids be kids and give them support and opportunities but let them choose their own path.

AIBU to feel so sorry for kids like this?

www.tes.com/jobs/vacancy/private-tutor-london-england-oxfordshire-2256768

Yes this is it, new money keen to be accepted by UK racists.

£180k for 5 hours a day!! Wow! Imagine being so rich, you can afford this and a nanny and a driver and probably a cook etc. Absolutely insane wealth.

Sadly, they wouldn’t want me. I didn’t go to private school and I don’t have a RP accent so they wouldn’t want this little toddler exposed to someone like me 😆

This poor little boy. All these expectations on him. Hope his older brother is ok!

Those parents sound insufferable

I was thinking Middle Eastern royal family.

You forgot about giving them an iPad to play with or shoving in front of the telly with a bag of stinky crisps while you have your nails and eyelashes done.
We could job share so kid gets a balance with my estuary accent

Jeez it sounds like the start of the sort of novel that gets made into a Netflix series. Definitely with a trigger warning for 'extreme graphic violence' as I expect this is how it will end.

Yup.

And I imagine the nanny will be dealing with that.

I wonder how much the nanny is being paid. Plus the car and driver which will be provided for excursions.

The money flying around is just insane.

(I also think there is not a hope in hell of whoever they employ living up to their expectations).

WTF! The self-hatred directed at their own culture and clearly viewing it as lesser is really sad.

This is exactly how Mohamed al Fayed tried to bring up Dodi, to elevate his family into English society. It seems extreme to us, but for someone desperate to fit into high society it probably makes sense.

Desperate for their child to join a club that no amount of money can buy. (Why anyone would want to be in that club is entirely beyond me but that’s bedside the point). It reminds me a bit of Al Fayed’s obsession with the royal family (odious man that he was), but it didn’t matter how rich he was and how close he got to certain individuals- he was never accepted. This family will spend their life chasing a dream, and an ‘idea’ of a life, instead of enjoying very privileged one they already have- and their children will be all the poorer for it.

Crikey. I’m feeling the pressure for the poor sod already.

They can hang out with me and my one year old if they want. He enjoys putting things into the washing machine and pulling them out. We could alter that to make it tweeds and cricket whites for full English effect.

My one year old already says “Da” which is Russian for ‘yes’ and Mandarin for ‘big’ so I feel he’s already very sophisticated.

I'd go and play with a one year old for that salary! I could hedge it round with plenty of blurb to fit their brief. I can blag with the best of them!

Poor little bugger .......

I’m tempted to apply for the job - pay is great and I’d be a great role model 😁.
Alas I’m Welsh, so probably not what they’re looking for 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

No need to be racist

Be reassured that England has no lack of rich social climbers.

Yes, this ad sounds foreign, because of the insistance on culture, but there's no shortage of rich English or British "entitled" social climbing parents in this country. Some famously very successful in their social climb.

Why "entitled" by the way?

Setting aside any debate on the way to do it, what's wrong with using what resources you have to give what you think are the best chances and life to your kids? That's what normal parents do everyday, that's why we all move to the best location we can, that's why top schools are over-subscribed, that's even why private schools and Universities get flooded by application the minute the current princes are said to attend, from William and Harry to now George, Charlotte and Louis for people who are into that kind of things and put the Royal Family on some pedestal.

It reads like something from Harry Potter: a pisstake of what some high net worth people think they need to mould their children into due to pressure to fit the mould. “English gentleman” indeed.

Nauseating and I feel for the kid.

This raises a question as to why these people have children in the first place?

Madness, I'm surprised it's even advertised.

Are they going to keep the younger child separate from the older one, given that the older one has already been corrupted?

Sounds like the job of a parent to me (except the salary that it!) I wonder what on earth the real parents are up to

Setting aside any debate on the way to do it, what's wrong with using what resources you have to give what you think are the best chances and life to your kids?

Nothing wrong with that but this goes way beyond that. It is pure social engineering and very little care or education. And zero recognition of the fact that education needs to be guided by a child’s aptitude, personality and interests ad opposed to trying to shoehorn him/her into a cultural stereotype.

of course money can buy you entry into any "club" you want. Diana was from a very aristocratic family, but Kate Middleton isn't. And most people joining that club don't advertise their life on the DM so you'll never hear from them anyway.
Money buys everything, you just need enough of it.

I like him, so it's not a dig and it wasn't about money, but Mike Tindall' own children are the grand-children of the Princess Royal .
It might not be the ultimate "club", but there are A LOT of people fighting get close to the royal.

They're describing an entirely imaginary person. Anyone who has the background they want surely wouldn't take this type of work. Anyone who has 'attended the best schools and universities in England' is unlikely to be have EY for UHNW weirdos as their dream job. And 180k sounds not bloody enough.

The whole thing reeks of a sad kind of class fetishism and affluent neglect.

I didn't think my comment was racist, it was obviously written by people who are not British so they are foreign, foreign is not a racist word. Anyone can be a social climber, my comment is specific about foreign entitled rich parents in the UK because that is what the discussion about: an advert written by such group. As for my description that they are entitled, such people their wealth makes them act entitled because in other countries wealth is enough to rise in the ranks whereas in British culture and British class system you can't buy class, they think they are entitled to something long established and goes beyond money.

very little care or education
they just have a different view than yours about that, rightly or wrongly.

zero recognition of the fact that education needs to be guided by a child’s aptitude, personality and interests
who said that? Literally from the ad

a more explorative Montessori style will likely be more appropriate, allowing him to develop his own interests through having been exposed to a wealth of different activities.

I don't really care about them one way or another, they from a different world than mine, but I find some of the posts on this thread very hypocritical - and posters sounding more jealous than anything.

I am personally not a fan of the "Montessori" style either, but that's not the point

Fuuuckk!!! That sounds absolutely batshit. The poor kids.