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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Gds' lunch situation is fine if you have a stable home where someone makes lunch or keeps the fridge stocked. It's not great for kids who come from disorganized homes. This is not entirely an economic issue. Some parents are super busy, a single parent can be stretched. Not every household can afford to give a kid or two or three $10 each to buy lunch. I say this from experience. I went to GDS and often had to cadge lunch from friends.[/quote]

Agree that it requires some planning, which we have our kid do.  If your family situation is going to be your kid asking "what's for lunch" each morning at 8am, then it's probably not the ideal place for your family unless you are willing to give them $10-$15 a day for lunch.  DCUM has this image of GDS HS kids strolling into Tenleytown every day for lunch.  Most kids do that occasionally, but they also are too busy to do that with any regularity even if they wanted to and had the money.  A lot of kids use lunch for meetings/clubs, working on group projects, or catching up on homework.  It's how our kid keeps their homework situation under control.[/quote]

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