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Butler High students to make up day missed after fatal school shooting

By Ken Lemon, wsoctv.com
By Ken Lemon, wsoctv.com

MATTHEWS, N.C. — While schools across the Charlotte-Mecklenburg School District are being asked to make up recent snow days and time missed during Hurricane Florence, students at Butler High School have to also make up the day classes were canceled following a fatal shooting on campus.

[CMS announces make-up days for schools closed due to winter storm, Hurricane Michael]

The day after a student Jatwan Cuffie, 16, took a gun to school and shot and killed classmate Bobby McKeithen in late October, Butler students stayed home from school while grieving and reflecting on the violence.

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The shooting stemmed from an off-campus fight.

CMS officials are saying students must make up that off-day.

In a press release, CMS said the makeup day will be used as "a shared campus teach-in and other special events that will lift up the strength of the Butler community."

Parents told Channel 9 they feel the school is being singled out because of that one eye-opening incident.

"I think we should be singled out in this case,” said parent Daniel Moxey.

Moxey said they are just getting back to normal on campus, but that day in October still isn't completely behind them.

"I think that the children and the parents and the community need to get together and figure out how to make this whole situation that's going down better,” Moxey said.

Moxey said he welcomes the day to rebuild, even though school officials haven't set a date for it or given a concrete plan of how it will happen.

"Letting everybody be on the same page at the same time,” he said.

Channel 9 reached out to school officials to try to get any thought or ideas of how the makeup day might be planned and how will they assure people who need to attend are there.

The calls have yet to be returned.

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