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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]NP here - also starting GDS US this fall! I have a question about lunch since it's not included? Do the students usually bring their own packed lunch, or do they go off campus every day? I can see an upper-level student heading off campus often, but don't really want my 9th grader off campus every day. what do most kids do? Also where do they eat on campus? [/quote]

This is seriously the straw that broke the camels back for us. I cannot deal with lunches anymore. [/quote]

They're in high school.... can't they pack their own lunch?  I went to a HS without lunch, and my parents gave me some money that I could either spend on cheap lunches in the area, or could pocket and pack my own lunch.  14-18 year olds should have no problem making themselves a turkey sandwich the night before school.[/quote]

I'm not PP - even if this is true - not having the option for lunch on campus requires families to shop and plan to have food even if the student packs the lunch.  For one of my kids, GDS not having lunch was the last straw in their own decision....they went to a different school because no lunch available on campus felt very inconvenient.[/quote]

Exactly. And permitting/ encouraging kids to order door dash for lunch every day is absurd. [/quote]

Right? So expensive and unhealthy. It's crazy.

What's weird is they said they would create some sort of grab and go options in the LS/MS kitchen to offer the HS students (when that building was in progress) - but clearly that didn't happen. I wonder of having COVID in between allowed them to skate by this issue without families complaining (but we are not at GDS so maybe families did complain).[/quote]

HS kids do have the opportunity to get food at the LMS cafeteria, but nobody does according to my kid because the food isn't great.  I don't think the current situation is ideal, as I would an in-school option, but with the amount of wasted food in the LMS cafeteria, I'm not sure the current situation is worse.[/quote]

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