Former Bay High Principal resigns from district

Today, at a Special Called meeting of the Board of Trustees, the board accepted the resignation of Dr. Amy Necaise from her employment with the Bay-Waveland School District.

Necaise is accused of taking $123 in items not scanned when she used the self-checkout during a trip to Walmart on Aug. 20. She turned herself in to police a few days later.

“While the district does not intend to comment on the ongoing criminal matters concerning Dr. Necaise, we believe that it is in the best interest of student achievement to accept this resignation and continue great progress in the school district.”

According to School Board President Casey Favre “The community has been quite insistent that the school board take action related to Dr. Necaise’s employment with Bay-Waveland Schools, and the authority to take such action does not lie with the school board.  Licensed educators are afforded exceptional rights as it relates to their employment under Mississippi’s Education Employment Procedures Law.  To protect the rights afforded to educators, the school board must remain unbiased and ready to hear an employee’s case should a grievance be filed.  Therefore, the school board is only in a position to provide comments on these matters after board action has been taken, as is the case today.”

Favre elaborated “what made this situation increasingly more difficult was the fact that the alleged conduct occurred off of school property, and school officials were not in any position to conduct their own, internal investigation related to the allegations.  So while community dissention was a consideration, we could not allow public pressure to interfere with the statutory rights of our employees, as we believe that everyone is entitled to due process of law.”