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Elementary Magnet School notifications for the 2012-2013 school year were mailed Friday, May 18, 2012. Middle Magnet School notifications for the 2012-2013 school year will be mailed no later than Wednesday, May 23, 2012. These notifications are based on applications submitted during the initial application period: April 2 - 30, 2012. Applications turned in after April 30, 2012 have not been processed. Those applications will be retrieved and processed following the month of May.
Teacher Appreciation Week is a week long celebration in the United States observed the first full week in May. Thank you to all of the amazing teachers that are committed to educating the students in Dothan City Schools.
One Hundred Years from now 
(excerpt from "Within My Power" by Forest Witcraft)
One Hundred Years from now
It will not matter
what kind of car I drove,
What kind of house I lived in,
how much money was in my bank account
nor what my clothes looked like.
But the world may be a better place because
I was important in the life of a child.
May 9, 2012 – School Nurse Day
Nurses are a special breed of people.
They get up in the morning and go to work with one simple, yet profound purpose in mind: “I will care for you. ”When asked what the most important tool in their workday is, every great nurse would surely answer, “My heart.”
Dothan City Schools would like to thank our School Nurses for everything they do every day to take care of our students.
Lead School Nurse – Doretha James
Cloverdale Elementary and Grandview Elementary – Melinda Moore
Faine Elementary and Girard Middle– Doretha James
Girard Elementary and Kelly Springs Elementary – Donna Arney
Heard Magnet, Montana Magnet, and Highlands Elementary – Kay Wingate
Hidden Lake Elementary and Beverlye Magnet – Kimm Gaster
Selma St. Elementary – Elizabeth Nolen
Slingluff Elementary – Pam Galloway, Karen Cooper, and Lynn Chan
Carver Magnet and Girard Middle – Teresa Moultrie
Honeysuckle Middle – Janice Horne and Tomoko Turner
Dothan High – Jacquelyn Pearce
Northview High – Jennifer Smith
In 1937, LaVetta Tatum Corley was a 17 year old senior at Dothan High School. Mrs. Corley was in attendance at the Dothan High School Centennial Celebration. She read a poem she wrote for her senior class in 1937. Below are the words she shared:
Class Poem of 1937 by LaVetta Tatum Corley
We've been together all these years,
Through joy and sorrow, too;
But the time has come for parting.
What does it mean to you?
Does it bring the tears to your eyes?
To remember the bygone days,
Just to pause, and wonder, and realize
That we are going separate ways?
Ways that are long and hard and rough,
With a rose scattered here and there;
But remember - and cherish through the years
The pleasures we used to share.
Goodbye dear school, and teachers as well;
Classmates and friends, goodbye.
We'll wander far, but we'll never forget
Alma Mater, Dothan High!
From: 1937 Dothan High School Yearbook
Congratulations Kasey Cooper, Dothan High School student, selected as ESPN player of the week, as well as, giving Auburn a verbal commitment to play softball finishing her senior year (2013).
As a sophomore last year, Cooper set a state record for most hits in a season with 106, and she’s having another great season as a junior. On Monday, she celebrated her commitment to Auburn by showing off her skills in two games. She went 2 for 4 and blasted her 17th homer of the season as Dothan blanked Russell County (Seale, Ala.). She then pitched a one-hitter with 14 strikeouts and added a double at the plate in a 6-1 win over Opelika (Ala.). Last week, Cooper smacked home runs in back-to-back wins against Rehobeth (Ala.) and Henderson (Troy, Ala.), and against Henderson struck out 15 in pitching six shutout innings. Cooper is likely to be used as an infielder at Auburn. (ESPN.go.com)
Let them hear from you! The "Yes We Can! Dothan" education movement is at a mid-point and would like for you to give an assessment of the work done in the Dothan community and with our public schools. Your input to this survey will assist Yes We Can! Dothan in becoming a stronger community advocate for the continuous improvement of the Dothan City Schools. Your responses are completely anonymous. Please visit their web site at www.yeswecandothan.com or a direct link is www.survey.yeswecandothan.com to accesss the survey on line. Please complete your survey by May 15, 2012.
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Together We Can Conquer
The Annual Special Olympics were held on Wednesday, April 11, 2012 at Dothan High School. Special Olympics provide athletic competition in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with disabilities. Those activities give continuing opportunities to develop physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a sharing of gifts, skills and friendship. Thank you to all of the administrators, teachers, parents, aides, nurses, and community members that helped support the DCS Special Olympics! Take a look at the photo album from the event.......
