UPDATED @ 9:12 PM Dothan School Board Meeting Tonight - Trust and Discipline Are Keys To The Problems

Rickey Stokes

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Posted by: RStokes
Date: Oct 01 2012 8:51 PM

DOTHAN:     Tonight a packed group of Dothan residents with children in the Dothan City Schools met with Dothan School Supt. Dr. Tim Wilder.

The purpose of the meeting was to discuss the Magnet Schools in Dothan. Wilder has formed a committee to explore the possibility of merging the magnet schools  into the other schools.

After many hours of discussion, the issue came down to, the parents do not trust the Dothan School system to have discipline  under control.

The strangest thing, Dr.Wilder, praised Honeysuckle Middle School and Girard Middle School are better than portrayed.

When RSN asked Dr. Wilder, how can the residents trust you to keep the schools under control as to discipline when you terminated a principal for to many disciplinary actions. Wilder said that was not the reason for termination. I challenged Dr. Wilder about this issue.

The issue is being explored. The bottom line is, the residents of the City of Dothan, at this time, do not trust the leadership of the school system. Discipline is out of control and no confidence in their ability to get it under control. The termination of Dr. Yance at Girard is a prime example of the lack of confidence and trust.

Dothan School Board

To School Board Member Chris Maddox, THANK YOU. You were the only person on the elected school board with enough concern to attend the meeting and hear the concerns of the parents. To Chairman Harry Wayne Parrish and the other members of the School Board, SHAME on each of you. None of you attended.

Thanks to Dothan City Commissioners Hamp Baxley, Critt Snellgrove, Hamp Baxley and Taylor Barbaree for their taking time to attend. Thanks to Alabama Senator Harri Anne Smith for attending. Thanks to Circuit Judge Brad Mendheim for attending. Thanks to Chamber of Commerce President Matt Parker for attending.

UPDATED @ 9:12 PM

School Board Member Ben Armstrong had to be out of town and could not re-schedule his trip to be at the meeting.

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