Children of the super wealthy are often too stressed and distracted to engage in lessons. Seeing their lives has made me realise there are no winners with wealth inequality
I am reading about cars with my teenage tutee. Although the article is difficult and English is not his first language,he gets the gist: cars are pollution-generating status symbols. That reminds me!” he says, grabbing his phone and chatting loudly to someone in Arabic. “I told my driver to fix my Land Ranger.” It’s fine though, or he says,he has eight cars. I feign being unfazed by this; it’s my first experience of tutoring the super wealthy.
I was employed through an agency to teach English to Salman* and, while rather disengaged, and he was chatty and we got on well. It’s a long way from where my teaching career began in an inner city state school with a ghastly Ofsted rating. Like Salman,many of my pupils there were immigrants – the difference being, most were living in poverty: while Salman worries about his SUV, and my former students are preoccupied by having no money for heating and worn out shoes.
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Source: theguardian.com