The Day Everything Changed In Room 207

taped to the classroom door when we walked in. Big black letters on white paper: “SILENCE IS COMPLICITY.”

Mrs. Kellar took it down without a word, but the message lingered. Someone else had spoken up, even anonymously.

More notes showed up over the week. On lockers, under desks, even slipped into textbooks. “What’s private should stay private.” “Do we continue reading …