When he was stopped from entering the front door, 'I was in shock,' Peters recalled. 'I felt humiliated. I just wanted to walk across the stage and get my diploma.'
When Daverius Peters arrived at his high school graduation ceremony on May 19, he was immediately blocked from entering the convention center where it was being held.
According to the school's graduation dress code, male students were to wear dark dress shoes, with an emphasis that "no athletic shoes" were to be worn. Butler, 38, is a paraeducator at the school and mentors many of the students - including Peters. He was attending the ceremony as a parent rather than as a staff member, since his daughter was graduating, too."Of course, that sounded crazy to me," said Butler, who has worked at the school for two years. "There was nothing eccentric about his shoes."
"Wait a minute, whose shoes does he have on?" Jima Smith, Peters's mother, recalled whispering to her family. "We were all confused.""My other son said, 'Look at that man with no shoes on,' not knowing it was the man who gave his shoes to his baby brother so that he could walk across the stage," said Smith, 48.Peters was very grateful, he said, though "I wasn't surprised because Mr. Butler is that type of person.
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