Tutoring a baby
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Good grief.
"A family based in north London seeks an extraordinary and experienced tutor to support their youngest child on his first steps to becoming an English gentleman."
When reading this advert, you would be forgiven for skimming over the words "first steps", as a turn of phrase.
But, it could be the most significant part of this unique job advert, as it seeks to find a tutor for a one-year-old.
Hundreds of applications have now been submitted since the anonymous family published their request for the £180k-a-year tutor, who has to be "someone very special".
Over the last few weeks, the advert has gained attention across the media, with many questioning why?
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@Jodi I got the impression they are not British from this description; I bolded the relevant part.
The family told Adam the successful candidate should ideally also have knowledge of or interest in horse-riding, skiing, the arts and music so as to influence the child in a broad spectrum of interests.
More than that though, he said the family wanted the tutor to enrol the child on a range of classes so the child would be "pony-riding and picking up an instrument by the time they are around three years old".
In the family's minds, helping their son become a "British gentleman" will lead to success and open doors.
"For all the rights and wrongs of that, because it's definitely a class statement," he adds.
But, despite all this tutelage in "Britishness", could the child pick up so-called cultural bias from the international family he lives with anyway?
