Case 1The Hunger Games
Before you repost.
The group chat says tonight is cancelled. Mateo is still moving tables. Somebody needs the whole story.
Open case 1
Rafa holds the phone while the whole crew cracks up, regroups and tries another selfie.
Meet the crewHold up. ¿Pero por qué?
The group chat has a take.
Let’s see what holds up.
Civic stories for ages 16–24. Classroom-ready for grades 6–12.
Investigate a story with the crew.
Then help your people make sense of it.
Mateo
Okay, show me the caseMira. We had tonight planned. Then someone dropped a clip in the group chat.
Pull up. Bring a question.
Mateo checks where a story started. Gia asks whose perspective is missing. Neither gets the whole picture alone.
Meet the people behind the conversationMateo
“Dale, we can post something. But what do we actually know yet?”
Gia
“Wait. What did the full notice say? Sí, one more question.”
Casebook 1
Before you run with it.
Four cases about what we believe, what we share and who gets heard. Pick the situation that gets you talking.
Case 1
Case 2SpongeBob SquarePants
Same test. More questions.
Dec can explain the circuit out loud. On the worksheet, he gets stuck. “Try harder” is not much of a plan.
Open case 2
Case 3Zootopia
The apology is not the repair.
The crew posts a recap. The caption blames people who were never asked what happened. Now the comments are right to push back.
Open case 3
Case 4The Lorax
Whose room is it, anyway?
The bookshop needs to cover its costs. A proposal would replace two free evenings with paid bookings. The crew has a question before anyone calls that a win.
Open case 4They’re figuring it out too.
Mateo, Gia and the neighbors
who kept the conversation going.
Mateo and Gia met in Children, Youth, and Digital Culture at a college in New York. The conversation followed them home. Now their friends are in it.
The crew brings everyday experiences. The companions bring the question that gets everyone thinking. You help work through the evidence and turn a take into something your friends can use.
Meet the crew and their little friendsWhat No, Pero Why? is here to doHot takes
Yep, nah, or it depends?
Pick a side, then hear how the crew sees it. Nothing you pick is sent anywhere.
1 / 6
If it’s on video, it happened the way it looks.
Mateo NahDale, I cut clips for a living. Thirty seconds of cropping can change the whole story.
Gia It dependsThe video is real. The caption is the part I check.
2 / 6
“Sorry” should be enough when a group messes up.
Anika NahSorry is the start. Tell people what actually happened and what changes.
Jordy It dependsIf the fix reaches the people who saw the mistake, then we can talk.
3 / 6
A test score tells you what someone knows.
Dec NahI can trace the circuit out loud. The worksheet is what loses me.
Sami It dependsScores tell you something. Ask what the test was built to measure.
4 / 6
If your family pays for college, they should see your grades.
Rafa It dependsSige, they help me a lot. Help and access aren’t the same thing though.
Caio NahCalma. The law has a say here, and so do you.
5 / 6
Schools can ban any protest they want.
Mari NahMira, there’s a real court case about this. The answer is “it depends,” not “any.”
Gia It dependsIt depends on what happened, where and under whose rule.
6 / 6
Minimum wage is the same everywhere in the U.S.
Rafa NahNope. States and cities can set it higher. Check yours.
Mateo It dependsFederal is the floor. Where you work decides the rest.
That’s the deck.
Most of these came out “it depends.” That’s the point: the answer is in the details.
On the feed
Crew reels.
Short clips from the crew’s week. They play without sound.
Same crew. After class.
There’s a whole life between the big questions.
Pull up. Pick a moment.
Rafa
“Hold on before we reroute the whole chat. Is that notice even current?”
You have a take. Where can it go?
Find a school club, a student council or a community project. Know who to contact, what to ask and what you are signing up for.
Find your way to get involvedPick how you get into it.
A group-chat story, a source trail, the fine print or a response to build. Same world, different ways in.