Just before the community pivots back to worrying and speculating whether the People’s Choice or a four-square stranger will be the next Superintendent of the School District, here is one more look back at Sheila Silver, the drama teacher whose (temporary) dismissal stopped traffic and riveted our town for a week.
Thanks to Friday morning’s clock-stopping 3 to 2 vote by the School Board, order on campus, in the opinion of many, has been restored.
Let’s delay the denouement of Ms. Silver’s striking case by one day.
Take a peek at another celebration of the rehired Culver City High School teacher who has flown admiring students in the Academy of Visual and Performing Arts to the top of the achievement mountain two years in a row.
For all the rhetorical bouquets poured out last week by students in the AVPA program, their parents and a few journalists, here is the very best, easily the most vivid profile yet drawn of Ms. Silver — by one of her students.
We are in the debt of Jane Niles for learning about student/actress Summer Concepcion’s magnificent portrait of her teacher.
Long before anyone outside of the administration realized that a bramble-bush of controversy lay four months in the future, Ms. Concepcion’s 700-word story appeared in the school newspaper, The Centaurian, last Oct. 2.
