Family seeks tutor from ‘socially appropriate background’ who can provide infant with ‘comprehensive British cultural environment’
Getting paid £180,000 a year to tutor a single child might sound like a dream job but there’s a catch: the child is only one-year-old and you need to get him into Eton.
A wealthy family near London is “searching for a tutor to provide a comprehensive British cultural environment” for their infant, according to an advertisement published by Tutors International, which calls itself “the handcrafted Bentley” of private tutoring.
The advert explains: “His parents are looking to cultivate a truly bicultural child. Having started at age five with this child’s older brother, they felt that even this was too late to achieve their goal, hence their search for a tutor now.”
To earn £180,000, the “extraordinary” tutor is expected to fulfil a long list of eccentric and class-based criteria: a received pronunciation English accent; “reasonable” music theory; an understanding of cricket, tennis, rugby, polo and rowing; the ability to foster hand-eye coordination and good manners; familiarity with early years education including Montessori and Reggio Emilia pedagogies; and first aid training.
