The power of the tongue...

[primsong]

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!

Comments

[iorhael94.livejournal.com]

The tongue joining forces with a closed mind and an angry heart is a fierce enemy.

What a great quote...so true indeed...and also the fact of gossip being a fire that's hard to stop...reminds me of that Billy Joel song.."we didn't start the fire"...of course *no one* wants to admit that *they* are contributing to the problem...they are just trying to paint how bad everyone else is....

I'm so sorry your embroiled in this message and I sure hoe the wolves don't start turning on you :( I suppose there is no way to cut yourself loose from the situation since you are so involved with the school and church....life is just too short for this kind of stress...I will pray for you for sure and for all involved.

[primsong.livejournal.com]

I'm one of a tiny number who are caught in all three 'camps' - I am a parent, school staff *and* a church member - but I think this is a good thing, not a bad one - I have a perspective into all three 'sides' and it is easy for me to see the bigger picture in which none of these supposed divisions are even real - there is so much overlap between them that the polarization is being artificially imposed by the skewed rumors, and thus should have little long-term hold. I've had people come to me concerned that I am in the crossfire, but I'm not... if anything I am simply blessed to be able to stand at the crossroads and reassure everyone I meet in all three areas that it isn't as bad as it seems.