When will the new superintendent of the Culver City Unified School District become known? (That is a more pertinent inquiry than “When will the Super be selected?”)
Is there a term for shrug?
Not likely at Friday morning’s special School Board meeting that starts at10:30 in the Board Room, sources say — unless the choice is Interim Super Patti Jaffe, the people’s overwhelming preference.
If not Ms. Jaffe, the chosen one probably will not be announced at Tuesday night’s regularly scheduled 7 o’clock meeting, either, say the same people.
It is easer to predict the high temperature for April 14, in Chicago, than when Dr. Myrna Rivera Coté’s will be revealed.
The pivotal vote and candid Board comments — the climactic drama — only will be made in Closed Session.
Once chosen, the Super will be contacted and asked if the proposed salary is acceptable. If the answer is “yes,” only then can the School Board go public.
The task of the School Board will be decomplicated if Ms. Jaffe is selected.
Members can vote, in private, and two minutes later make a public announcement because they know her terms.
By this late hour, Board members should know the finalists so intimately that they could identify what allergies each suffers at certain times of the year. They know the survivors better than family members.
Like boarding a merry-go-round that refuses to run out of gas, the School Board has examined the candidates in at least a dozen Closed Sessions. Presumably, this will mean the last survivor may be regarded as the perfect choice.
