A 25-year-old private tutor in Dubai, who works with some of the richest families in the city, recently opened up about how children belonging to some of the most elite families in the city were used to "extreme wealth". Speaking to Business Insider, the tutor, on condition of anonymity, also revealed that he was once paid Rs 2.5 lakh to do a child's homework.
Recollecting the incident, the tutor said that one of his students was told by his brother to "not bother doing any work" because "Dad would sort it out." "He then paid me $3,000 (about Rs 2.5 lakh) to do his homework for him," the private tutor said. "But this was normal behavior in Dubai, as the kids were used to extreme wealth."
He had moved to the UAE city in 2020 to work for an international tutoring agency and has since taught children of millionaires and billionaires who made their money from oil businesses, tech startups, and other ventures.
"One of the families I taught lived in one of Dubai's most expensive apartments, which boasted an art room, a massage room, a gym, and a cinema. It was spread over five floors and also had a private elevator and guard dogs on the door," he told the publication. "Families like these often had dozens of staff, including security, maids, drivers, cooks, nannies, and, of course, tutors."
He added that although the parents weren't always around, but when he did come across them, they were almost always friendly to him. Most of his communication was through the nannies who were at the children's beck and call.
"They would cook me dinner and bring me drinks, and I almost felt like I was a part of the family, sort of like a big brother," the tutor said.
Sharing some of his many unique experiences teaching kids from these uber-rich families, he said that one of his pupils, who was around seven at the time, had demanded to see an owl in real life while studying about it in biology. "The next time I went to the house, an owl was perched on the kitchen counter," he told Business Insider.
Another of his younger pupils had his own "bespoke classroom" better equipped than most schools. One day, after having finished an arts and crafts class, when he said that they needed to clean up the mess, the child apparently said: "Absolutely not. I do not pay you to clean. I pay her to clean." He was pointing at the nanny.
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