Or should I say all things are commonplace and commonplace is every and i mean every where. It comes out to play very often in this small berg I I live in. There roles, rules, unwritten mostly -- pecking orders, generational cultural acceptances which drive me to reclusivity!
The most blatant commonplace entering my world lately are these two:
A political work group I currently volunteering in is composed primarily of middle age white guys who quickly acknowledge themselves as city leaders/followers. I say a bunch of egotistical sexists...they pour all the work, large and small on the very successful female meeting convener. She smiles and take it...she is being paid for her part of this work group. But every duty and detail they dump on her. I am wanting to shout their attitudes in their "I'm all that" faces. She is cool and calm. I take a note off her page, calm down inside and think to myself, how happy I am to not be in her high heels.
The second commonplace is the culture of facade which has been in place for more than 20 years within the local school board. They have the hottest potato ever laying in the board member and super's respective laps and they act like there is no scorching elephant in the room. They acknowledge only the good and do not acknowledge the negative. It's a live wire show right now with the high school principal's wife being charged with sexting, grooming and sexually molesting not only one of her husband's students, but her daughter's boyfriend!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Does it get any raunchier than tha? I don't know how!
The principal by law is supposed to immediately self-report any wrong doing done to any child under his jurisdiction. Instead, as the District Attorney's charging documents say, he colluded with his wife to try to get the 14-year-old boy's parents to write it off as bad judgment on the part of Mrs. Principal, also known as our former mayor. The school super and board prez lied to the public in the last school board meeting and said the DA was looking into the issue; after contacting the DA the day after the board meeting, we learn this is so not so...it's a self reporting thing that is supposed to be initiated by the first school administration member who learns of it and then goes to the local PD. So what will and what should the local school board do, if anything, with their ethically challenged principal?
For sure this scorching elephant will cause good faith issues for the board who wants to try and fly a high falutin zillion dollar bond to build a mega school early next year (mind u school population is on the decline).
These are my reddest flag waving commonplaces in my life right now. Holy cow, give me boring...
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