Hervey Files for Job Back

Not long after the Unity For Gallaudet protests concluded, students at the Mississippi School for the Deaf led a protest/walk-out against Pamela Hervey and Delores Mack. Ultimately, Principal Hervey and Superintendent Mack were fired.

Hervey has filed a complaint through the EEOC and wants her job back. She's playing the race card. She said she was fired because she is Black.

Below is the article that appears in the Clarion-Ledger:

Former deaf school principal files complaint

The Clarion-Ledger


Pamela Hervey, who lost her job as high school principal of the Mississippi School for the Deaf in Jackson earlier this month, has filed a complaint through the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, according to a faxed statement from her attorney, Reeves Jones.

The complaint is “seeking redress for wrongful termination of employment based on race.” Hervey is black.

The statement says that Hervey wants her job back.

“We’ve received an EEOC complaint against the department,” said Hank Bounds, state superintendent of education. “Unfortunately, it’s a personnel matter that I can’t speak to publically.”

Both Hervey and former superintendent Delores Mack lost their jobs.

At the time, Bounds would not say if their dismissals were related to a walkout of about 20 high school students.

The students protested that four of their 26 teachers are not proficient in sign language.

The Mississippi School for the Deaf enrolls 118 students and the School for the Blind enrolls 70.