They say the way to a person's heart is through their stomach. That's the method Dothan City Schools bet on tonight as they provided dinner at the latest part of the "Yes We Can Dothan" program. "Their superintendent is very concerned and wants them to succeed," Rosalind James of the Student Involvement Committee said.

Many of those concerns focused on the effects of a sticky financial situation that's going to force cuts in the schools. "We are looking at every possible way to cut expenses," Dothan City Schools Superintendent Sam Nichols said to students.

That need for cutbacks leave the schools in a tough situation. Layoffs are a possibility, so is the scrapping of some programs. Both don't sit well with students. "All of our programs are very valuable to our school system. But, because of the financial situation, we're certainly going to have to take everything into consideration and balance the bottom line," Nichols said.

The talk wasn't all about potential layoffs or the loss of extracurricular programs. "I would imagine by now that about 99% of the kids have cell phones," Nichols asked the fifty students at the forum.

Dothan high schools have what students tonight said is a fairly loose policy on cell phones. They're allowed to have them on campus as long as the devices are off and put away. Some students just want a better enforced policy-- no matter what it is. "This was just a great opportunity for me to hear from the students some of the issues that are a concern to them," Nichols said after the forum.