DOTHAN: On Tuesday, March 11, 2025 in a special called board meeting of the Dothan City School Board, in a split 4 to 3 vote, qualifications for the new Dothan School Superintendent passed.
Not one single member of the Dothan City School Board, the governing body of your children’s education, admitted to having the qualifications drafted. According to School Board Chairman Scott Childers, he did not and did not know who did. Current Dothan City School Superintendent Dr. Dennis Coe made it clear he did not draft the document. But that did not stop Dothan City School Board Members Brett Strickland, Melanie Hill, Franklin Jones, and Brenda Guilford from voting in favor of the qualifications for those wishing to apply for Dothan School Superintendent.
With these four votes, they urinated straight in the face of every teacher and principal in the Dothan City School System. Because two requirements, a PHD doctorate – which some have, but in addition they must have experience as a School Superintendent.
IT IS OBVIOUS these four board members never had any experience as a School Board Member until they were elected. Of the four, Brenda Guilford is the only one who has worked in a school system. She owns Brenda’s Preparatory School in Dothan. At the Preparatory School she manages a childcare facility that employs a “small staff” and serves about 100 children. Brett Strickland does not send his children to Dothan City Schools, Melanie Hill does not have any children in Dothan City Schools, and Franklin Jones does not appear that he knows where Dothan even is.
Dothan School Board Chairman Scott Childers, Amy Bonds and Aurie Jenkins all opposed the qualifications in the unknown document.
Get you some popcorn, and some nausea medicine, and you can watch AS THE STOMACH TURNS IN THE DOTHAN CITY SCHOOLS. And if employed by the system, you can now see firsthand who supports you and who does not support each of you teachers and principals.
