“The siren app knows my name better than my school does.”
Three years of studying between alerts. She wants season one to start there, not with a war summary.
Olena has spent three school years learning in the gaps between air-raid alerts. Her timetable is not a timetable, it is a negotiation with a notification.
She is not interested in being the sad slide in someone's presentation. What she wants on the record is the ordinary part: group chats that keep a class together, the teacher who runs a lesson from a corridor, the way you get good at finishing a thought quickly.
When the conversation turns to banning under-16s from social media, she has one question for whoever wrote it: which of the three chats holding her class together would you like to close first?
To open season one with a normal Tuesday, not with a war summary.
More people, more reasons.
All stories
Dennis · 16 · USA“They banned the app. Nobody asked what I used it for.”
Runs a forty-person study group in a chat the new law would close down.
His story
Caitlyn · 17 · Cincinnati“Adults keep calling it screen time. It's my whole team.”
Organises a city league online, and wants one room where the coaches hear it from her.
Her story
Martina · 16 · Italy“I learned my second language from people I'd never meet.”
Argues the internet did the peacebuilding first and the rules turned up later.
Her storyYour turn at the table.
Eighteen people applied in two weeks. The chair is still open.