Heze seems like he’s maturing and getting really interested in his schoolwork. I actually don’t think he really wants to be on YouTube anymore, he’s very serious and matter of fact all the time. I think he wants to only say positive things about his school which he is enjoying and the uneducated attitude of his parents is embarrassing him.
the idea that Ella’s lack of homeschooling has prepared him to be working a year up at school is laughable. The private education is being provided by Chelsea and he’s working a year up because he’s playing football a year up (so if he does go pro, he needs to finish school a year early to avoid ‘wasting’ a year he could be playing full time by still needing to be in education). That’s nothing to do with his intelligence or the homeschooling. In working a year up and his lack of home education…the schooling group at Chelsea meant he couldn’t keep up and his education was clearly suffering….that’s why Chelsea have take him out of that group and funded private schooling…it’s their duty of care if they want him to continue with the sport. Heze will do well at school because it’s been hammered into him that everything is a job and he has to be an adult at all times, so he will be very focussed, and there may be a threat that if he doesn’t get certain grades he will have to drop back a year…both at school and at Chelsea. He will also be doing well at a private school because teachers aren’t spending hours dealing with bad behaviour and also they will be able to give Heze extra support to help him catch up.
Tim and Ella seemed more interested in the ‘opportunity’ to play foot-golf than the education he is getting. I wonder if Heze actually wanted to go out that evening (did he have another mock exam the next day to revise for at home that evening?). That trip to Nando’s was all about Tim and Ella ‘proving’ that they do take their kids out and that their kids eat properly.
At the start they acted like there was some massive surprise coming for Heze, yet it was just a basic meal at a chain restaurant. The type of thing 14 year olds do fairly regularly, yet for Heze it’s his only meal out for the whole year. It’s pathetic, his father went to Dubai and swam with dolphins as a birthday treat…Heze got a plate of chicken wings.
I really hope Heze starts to question the way they are treated soon. He surely can see that he/his siblings are the family breadwinners and that he is being short-changed already. Now he is at a private school, with kids from money…he will be around kids who go skiing in school holidays and have lots of extra-curricular, plus proper family holidays. For the cost of a 5* week in Dubai, the whole family could have gone away to a villa in Spain and done some activities.
Heze if you are reading here, start asking about the money. Do you get paid a stipend for Chelsea, what do you get paid as a Nike ambassador, what was the payment for the Channel 5 show, how much is YouTube adverts paying? Anything that is your own work, you are entitled to 90% of that, your parents should get 10% for acting as your agents/chaperone, then anything where the whole family is involved such as YouTube you should be getting 1/9th of it as an appearance fee (because the edit work and equipment Tim puts into it is minimal he shouldn’t be entitled to the lion’s share just for 10mins extra ‘work’ per video). Your money should be going into fixed bonds or ISAs in your sole name (these are long term saving accounts that build up funds for your future and could buy you your first home). If you aren’t asking about your share, by the time you are 18, your parents will have spent it all on themselves (more and more luxury holidays, meals out, sports cars etc), and if you don’t make it as a pro footballer (injuries can happen to anyone) you will end up financially with nothing after spending your entire childhood working and financially providing for other people when it’s ALWAYS the parents job, never the child’s to provide for the family.