Barefoot Brockovich!

Dear Scott,

I see the Dollarmites have been kicked out of Queensland schools!

Woohoo!

Dollarmites: 0
Barefoot: 1

You’re the Erin Brockovich (with smaller boobs, I hope) of banking and finance. Keep sticking it to them, Mr Pape!

Melinda

Hi Melinda,

Thanks for the kind words and, yes, another one bites the dust!

Your scoreboard needs updating though:

So far Victoria, the ACT and now Queensland have kicked CommBank out of their classrooms.

That means I’ve still got to meet up with the following education ministers: Sarah Mitchell (NSW), Sue Ellery (WA), John Gardner (SA) and Jeremy Rockliff (Tas). This will give me the opportunity to state my case:

First, having CommBank bribe their way into classrooms really is like having Ronald McDonald teach kids food nutrition (“Would you like a bank account with that?”).

Second, and much more importantly, our schools need to make it a priority to teach kids the real-life money skills they’ll be tested on every day of their lives.

That’s why I created the Money Movement, and it finally looks like the scoreboard is turning!

(I’ll report back next week and let you know how I go trying to get a meeting with the education ministers.

Scott.