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Personmoppetsdad
13/12/2013 at 4:05pm
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Quote: Originally posted by bexamy on 12/12/2013
It's wrong you have to pay bus fare to get kids to school. When well off pensioner get free travel ....



Most of the pensioners like myself have paid our taxes for fifty years don't you think it's time we got some back. Unlike most of the youngsters today I started work on my fifteenth birthday and finished when I reached 65.
    Maybe they will have to work a couple of years later than I did but most won't start until many years later they will be sitting on their bums getting qualifications that nobody wants.

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Yes I pay taxes too,I started work at 16 I am 40 I will still have to work until I'm 70 I'm on a fixed low income my daughter is 11 and she has passed the Kent test to go the grammar school. However it is not our closest school and will require her to travel using the freedom pass to go to it. She can go to the local comp which is closer but is not really very good. Is it right that a hard working family on a low income should be disadvantaged against giving their child a better education whilst well off pensioners take money then moan about the younger generation not wanting to work when infact its because of their financial background that has inhibited them. If I didn't work and was on benefits she would have the help.


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“It's wrong you have to pay bus fare to get kids to school. When well off pensioner get free travel ....”

Let’s face it, nothing is free, I pay over £2,000 in rates and some of this money is used to supplement bus travel for “bus passes to the over sixties, special needs, student travel and the un-employed”.
We are a two car family so no need to use the bus yet but things may change.
I personally don’t mind the give and take situation; I receive the fuel allowance so at the end of the day it more or less evens itself out.


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13/12/2013 at 7:20pm
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Quote: Originally posted by bexamy on 13/12/2013
Yes I pay taxes too,I started work at 16 I am 40 I will still have to work until I'm 70 I'm on a fixed low income my daughter is 11 and she has passed the Kent test to go the grammar school. However it is not our closest school and will require her to travel using the freedom pass to go to it. She can go to the local comp which is closer but is not really very good. Is it right that a hard working family on a low income should be disadvantaged against giving their child a better education whilst well off pensioners take money then moan about the younger generation not wanting to work when infact its because of their financial background that has inhibited them. If I didn't work and was on benefits she would have the help.


That's the exact same situation I'm in, but in Worcestershire. My son has worked extremely hard and earned a place at a good Grammar school. As it is not his catchment school we have to pay his transport with no subsidies, £900+ a year. There is a dedicated bus service but this week alone it has been over 30mins late on three occasions. Tonight it left school over an hour late.
We are also a low income family and feel that his hard work to better himself should be rewarded not penalised. It's been a struggle this year, the bus pass increased from £650 to £900+ in a week due to funding cuts.


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It costs us over £1000 pa for my two kids to go to school on a bus. But then the school has my daughter playing on all the sports teams so she only rides on the bus home once a week, and the rest of the time we have to pick her up.

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Personborntoshop
13/12/2013 at 10:59pm
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I'm so grateful we live a 5 minute walk from our high school/6th form

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13/12/2013 at 11:05pm
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No charge for school buses here.

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PersonRonni54
13/12/2013 at 11:16pm
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Quote: Originally posted by Francophile1947 on 12/12/2013
Quote: Originally posted by bexamy on 12/12/2013It's wrong you have to pay bus fare to get kids to school. When well off pensioner get free travel ....



You have to apply for the over 60's bus pass and I doubt if many well off ones bother


And, even if they have one, the charge only applies for the number of journeys made. I have used mine twice since I retired last year and really don't think my £4 would help anybody much!

And, don't forget, many of us had to pay fares for our children to get to school too.



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PersonRomaway
14/12/2013 at 10:11am
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In London children in full time education get free travel on buses and trams. It never fails to amaze me when I stand for 10 mins waiting for a bus alongside several teenaged school children who then get on the bus and get off at the next stop which can easily be seen from where they got on! They won't walk even one bus stop and this is very very usual. If they had to pay they would walk.

I am not saying they should pay, just that if they did they would walk.



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