In the week and a half since drama teacher Sheila Silver was reinstated at Culver City High School, I have been thinking about the chemistry between her and Principal Pam Magee if both return to campus next year.
Not that these are halcyon days.
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Both ladies have been thinking about it much more than I.
Tough call.
Neither pair of shoes is desirable.
Parties on both sides of the School Board’s 3 to 2 reversal of Ms. Magee’s decision to relieve Ms. Silver acknowledge that the act appears to have undermined the principal’s authority.
Forget “appears.” That is what some people are saying.
Unrelated, at least technically, to the merits of Ms. Silver’s dismissal and Ms. Magee’s decision to fire is the reality of daily life where chemistry is the crucial element.
If both return in August, they will see each other, will pass each other, will think about each other, will make judgments about each other.
They are not like a husband and wife trying to make up after a spat.
I doubt there is any love to re-ignite.
The campus is not so large that Ms. Silver can become lost among a welter of fairly anonymous people. Anonymity is not what she does. For two years she has made headlines because of her own extraordinary talents and the good fortune to attract quite gifted students.
At the end of next week, Thursday-Friday-Saturday, Ms. Silver brings her championship Academy of Visual and Performing Arts students back to the Robert Frost Auditorium for the production “Urinetown, The Musical.”
I anticipate Opening Night will be a Moment to Remember.
Ms. Silver no doubt will smile. Ms. Magee no doubt will applaud. I no doubt will wonder what is going on beneath the façade.
