Most amazing job advert ever

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Make sure you are not drinking anything when you read this, because you will blow liquid out of your nose. https://www.tes.com/jobs/vacancy/private-tutor-london-england-oxfordshire-2256768

They sound to me like Stjohn & Vanessa, and Charlotte & Dennis from Goodness Gracious Me!

It's so very sad for those two boys, if this is real, though. They'll have everything and yet nothing for their whole childhoods.

Paging Rory Stewart!

This being MN, he would be told that he should re-train so he can get a better job and maximise his earning potential!

Well, I'm up for it. I may lack experience of roles in embassies or royal households, but I've definitely had roles within private residences, i.e. my own and my parents'.

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Oh wow. I could teach a child to be British & have a stupidly posh accent for someone from the midlands but gees, that’s where it ends 🤣.

Poor child.

It’s actually really very sad. I’m getting the vibe that it’s a Chinese or Indian family that are so embarrassed about their roots they want their child to completely lose their culture rather than allowing them to embrace both.

Very much posh family wannabes, who want to live through their children.

God help the kid if he grows up totally uninterested in going to Twickers, Wimbledon and Henley and instead wants to support Man U and bet on the dogs. Even worse if the only music he likes is heavy metal, he hates reading and is heavily into gaming and drinking, and he wants to cultivate a Sarf Lunnon accent like his mates.

to be fair in the cold war era thats not far from the truth

It'd be interesting to know!

I'd be surprised if it was an Indian family though. I work with a lot of Sikhs and they generally tend to be very proud of their own heritage. And I highly doubt it's a Muslim family. I may of course be wrong.

im not clicking the link, can anyone copy and paste it please

It't too long for that. Just click on the link, it's perfectly safe.

I don't actually think they want to erase their own culture, because in one part they say that family will provide all the aspects of their domestic culture.

I think they want to bring up a child who will be completely at ease in the higher levels of British society. Because their background is obviously foreign I presume they think they can't do that for their child themselves, so they want to employ someone with that background to teach the child the subtle nuance, cultural capital, manners, social etiquette etc of that level of British society from a very young age so the child develops the accent, manners, social background etc to feel absolutely at ease.

I can see why they would want to do that because it will benefit the child, but I'm not sure why they've already written off the poor 5 year old. Maybe he speaks with a bit of a London accent because they didn't get an RP speaking nanny or something.

I think they see the ease with which British people of that type move through the world and think that money can buy the person to give it to their son. They are right in that the life a child has lived by the age of only 3 can influence what happens in the rest of their life so maybe they are hoping that this tutor will give their son that advantage before he goes to school.

Would be very interesting to see who they choose for this role and how the child has turned out in 25 years!

Cor blimey guv'nor !

Entitled to two days off a week. Wow. Thank you very much

Not bad if you're only working 5 hours a day for £180k though!

Absolutely brilliant!

Who wants to bet the nanny is a Norland nanny?!

The agency currently has only two jobs advertised, this one and one in Philadelphia for whom “Solid experience in teaching the American high school curriculum is paramount.”

I wonder what it charges.

ill pass thanks, especially after studying kevin mitnick for computer classes

I sure hope “the boy” can live up to these lofty aspirations.

If I didn’t have my own kids, I would apply. If they’re going to pay £180k to hang out with a one year old at museums and checks notes rowing clubs (?) I’m down. Although, I do not have any previous experience in royal households.

I found the constant references to him as ‘the boy’ very cold and impersonal. ‘Our child’ or ‘our son’ would have sounded more like they actually gave a shit about him.

But the advert is not written or posted by the parents, its an agency.....I sincerely hope you're not thinking of applying.....

I’m going for Arab parents.

Definitely sounds like parents who are suffering from an extreme case of postcolonial self-loathing... Arab or maybe Chinese? I would have thought the whole 'English gentleman' thing was old hat these days, now that everyone wants to become tech start-up CEOs.

Maybe it's because I'm an American, but what the hell is Received Pronunciation and why is capitalized? Is this some fancy way of saying "the Queen's English?"

Their ideal Tutor will be someone well educated, with an extensive vocabulary, and who speaks with Received Pronunciation.