WelshBluebird
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Snipped the list, absolutely none of which apply to a schoolchild travelling from Barrow or Roose to Ulverston on a direct train using a child rate season ticket between those two stations purchased by the parent in advance of use (i.e. not by giving the kid the money). Which is how most of them should be travelling, provided they make a journey (single or return) five days a week, which almost all of them will.
What they are almost all doing, you can guarantee it (and it's nothing new), is paying when challenged and pocketing the money. As a paying passenger and taxpayer I want that to stop.
Except you made a very wide ranging comment, certainly not limiting it to just this case, that anyone who has an issue with strong enforcement against fare dodging is either a fare dodger themselves or is someone who supports it. That is a very bold claim that I had to disagree with.
Also it is worth pointing out this thread (at least according to the title) is not limited to just the case of school children making that journey.