The power of the tongue...

Gossip is destroying our school - I am watching it happen right before my eyes as a small number of people who never stop to find out the facts but just flap their tongues with anything negative they can find. They're pouring their poison into the grapevine...whispering in the halls, calling other parents on the phone... It's so terribly sad. I'm trying to set it right anywhere I can, but it looks like at this rate we may lose several families for no real reason at all except the poison of those who are so quick to believe the worst and then gossip about it...

There's (another) meeting tonight - I'm going and hoping, but it's just so sad. :-( We have an interim principal now, as sweet a lady as you could ask for but I feel sorry for her entering into such a mess.

I set up my weekly book display in the library with books about the evils of gossiping. Gah!