Martin Lewis says 'sorry' after getting 'really wound up' in 'OTT' speech
Martin Lewis has issued an apology and said "he got really wound up" in an "OTT" moment. The BBC Sounds podcast presenter and ITV star spoke out on Twitter, now X, a he addressed his speech on financial education on Monday (September 9).
Mr Lewis tweeted: "We need Financial Education in EVERY school for EVERY child. My speech to all-party group for financial education of MPs, Lords & others at Parliament (I really got wound up towards the end, sorry if it was OTT)."
Mr Lewis said: "the problem is very simple - getting it on the national curriculum had been the goal but not long after we got theacademization and free schools which no longer have to follow the national curriculum and that is now a minority of schools who legally have to follow the national curriculum. They have to look at the national curriculum = take the guidance but they don't have to follow it and when you have strained budgets in schools anything that you cannot teach you don't teach.
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"Which is why it is a postcode Lottery and with the exception of the few Young Money centers of excellence out there we have a Poverty of financial education in our schools right now so you had your report after 10 years and I'm always very thankful for the work that the Parliamentary group does but if that again was a no Sherlock situation and I can take this further I sat name another name drop here I sat in a meeting with Nick Gibb after three years and I went in to say he was the follow-up schools minister we've got it on the national curriculum but that means many of the previous funders and let me tell you the last thing I want is to see branded banks inside schools.
"We need resources, we need teacher training when they're learning to be teachers in the first case and we need ongoing teacher training for all the teachers who haven't been taught to do this so at least they can be a page ahead of the pupils we would ask them for that.
"I volunteered my time to speak at a conference I said you bring them together I'll speak we'll talk to them about it because this all stem from a cash class IED years ago where I taught a group of uh 15 year olds about with their teachers at the back of the class and they went home and saved their parents 5 and a half grand."
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