Over the past few weeks, we’ve been reporting on the pay dispute between Durham Public Schools and the district’s educators and staff, including its classified staff who were told that salary increases they had been promised and already paid would not continue. As a result, DPS has closed schools twice in the past two weeks as educators and their supporters have protested the pay situation and lobbied for more transparency. We received the following email from HANNAH POSNER, a student at Riverside High School, who attended the rally last Wednesday at the Fuller Building in Downtown Durham.