Evaluate whether a private conflict will benefit from public exposure.
Maya slammed the mailbox shut and leaned her forehead against the cool metal, breathing in the quiet that followed another long afternoon at school. The messages on her phone glared up at her: a thread of taunting texts from Cherokee that started harmless and had become something else—mean, relentless, invasive. He didn’t just target Maya; his jibes scraped at her little brother’s confidence and left her mother pacing the kitchen at night, clutching a mug of coffee she never finished.