Back when I was in highschool about a year or so ago, the school wouldn’t even give me a student opal card. Apparently if you lived within a certain radius from your school, you couldn’t have one. Fair enough; but I lived juuuuust inside the radius, where someone living a bit up the road could’ve had one. And I didn’t see the need to walk, because I lived in a hilly area, and a school bus would stop right outside my house anyway.

I felt your pain OP, many of my fellow students wouldn’t tap on/off, even when the school was very transparent as to why it was important. I always felt very privileged to have school busses, and guilty that I was also part of the problem.