watch what darren says from 2:05. I disagree completely with it.
First of all, it's not true. Both of my parents have their own businesses, and they both have university degrees specific to their field. If they didn't have these degrees it would be impossible for them to get work because people wouldn't trust their capabilities.
Second of all, what Darren says in this video is almost word for word what Mia said in the Q&A video, which just shows that the parents are indoctrinating these kids with sound bite phrases like "you only need exams if you're going to work for someone else." The fact that it's not true is just them manipulating and lying to their kids. It's like they don't even live in the real world.
Thirdly, I absolutely cannot believe how they speak about "working for someone else" as if it's not respectable, and a worse way of life than being self employed. It's like they're looking down on people. Many many people in this country do not have a choice whether they work for someone else, they just take any job they can get so they get money to support their families. Very few people can just get lucky on youtube. And Mia, aged 15, already thinks she's above the whole "working for other people" idea. I was shocked how she was so certain as she said "I don't need GCSEs because I'm not working for someone else"- it's so arrogant and privileged of her to assume that she is going to go straight into a high salary youtube career for the rest of her life. She already thinks she's better than people who aren't self-employed. She has no idea what will happen- their whole channel could get demonetised for some reason in the future. I can't say I blame her entirely for coming across as so arrogant when she's so clearly been indoctrinated, but it's clear this family 1) think they're somehow better than "normal" people in society and 2) have no awareness of people in a less fortunate position than them. I remember when they did a video that was them eating food from poundland for 24 hours, and all they did was complain how disgusting it was for the whole video. I think it's been taken down due to the backlash they received. They didn't even consider for one second that there are people who can only afford to eat poundland food, and that it's guaranteed some kids watching that video come from families that are in that position. I'm so sick of the fact that they're so privileged and they think being youtubers makes them exempt from society.
Have Darren and Georgie ever had a real job? I remember them saying they were on benefits before Gran Canaria. Obviously I am not one of those people that go round accusing people on benefits as being unwilling to get a job. I wholeheartedly believe that nearly everyone on benefits would want a job if they could, and I think it's right that the government support people who can't. But if Darren and Georgie were so opposed to working for other people even back in the Gran Canaria days... it begs the question as to whether they even tried to get a job when they were on benefits, or whether they refused to get jobs where they were working for other people. I really do hope that's not the case, but you can see why it's possible.
That family have sugarcoated not giving their kids an education as an "alternative lifestyle" and that they "don't need an education like everyone else" (reeks of privilege). In reality, Sienna can barely read, and she sure as hell can't spell (I'm remembering that video where she and mia had to write stuff down in that game thing). These children are going to be seriously disadvantaged. Do they really expect all four kids to grow up and become youtubers for the rest of their lives? Their channel will probably be dead before Koa is 5. They are deluded, just because they have forged an "alternative career pathway" by having a youtube channel, they assume that they are better than everyone else and Mia thinks that she is in a better position than anyone her own age. The sense of privilege and superiority coming from that family is unreal.
in the family like all family bloggers you would think they would use that new wealth to support their education. I have no issue with home/online schooling if it is actually going somewhere.
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I just do not understand why you'd want to discourage your child from learning... well, anything
