Talk:Rabun Gap-Nacoochee School

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The article on Rabun Gap-Nacoochee School is described as a stub, meaning it is a short article in need of expansion. The New Georgia Encyclopedia contains a lengthy article on RGNS that has been vetted by school archivist Billy Joe Stiles and the NGE editors. The New Georgia Encyclopedia has given permission to use its documented article (documentation which is now required by Wikipedia in order to have a credible full-length article) on RGNS, in order to post a full-length article on the history of RGNS and also to help the NGE in an experimental process whereby their articles are used with editorial permission to lend credibility to Wikipedia articles. It would be truly helpful to RGNS and nice for the NGE to have partnered a longer article that has been vetted. It is hoped that a posting of this article will appear in the near future.Dewitt888 (talk) 19:44, 30 April 2010 (UTC)

12.166.242.218 removed the work statement. Is that no longer the case? You no longer have to work when you are a student there? Rearden9 19:04, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

To my knowledge, you still must work or participate in a sport every season. However, the last time I was there was last year. But I don't see that changing anytime soon. I'll ask someone I know who still goes there about it. OmnipotentEntity 04:23, 16 September 2006 (UTC)

Campus maintenance, cooking, cleaning, grounds keeping, etc. are no longer done by the students and are now performed by school employees and outside contractors. Students still do a limited amount of community service.

I went there for one year (hated the place, so i won't edit this article, horrible biase I'm afraid) and you still have to work... one season of sports, one of work, and one of something else, i forget what... but i did two sports and a club... no work and they still let me pass... they don't really check.

-- Basically, the way it works is that an afternoon activity of some sort is mandatory, be it sports, work, a club, or some sort of artistic pursuit. The work program is really 45 minutes of busywork that basically exists to encourage students to instead pursue some other, more "educational" activity I suppose. So while work is in a sense required, the school isn't getting any real labor out of the students, and therefore I think it would be inaccurate to say that it's working as 'part of the tuition'--- this used to actually be the case, but it is not any more.