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News, Opinion, & Multimedia for Tamalpais High School

The Tam News

News, Opinion, & Multimedia for Tamalpais High School

The Tam News

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Sausalito Art Fail

By Whitney Howard September 21, 2015

Sausalito celebrated its 63rd annual art festival this labor day weekend. To be more accurate, other people celebrated an art festival that happens to be located in Sausalito. Sausalito residents certainly...

EDITORIAL: Know Your News

EDITORIAL: Know Your News

By Tam News Staff September 21, 2015

With the presidential election of 2016 fast approaching, discussion among Tam students and Americans all over the country has been overtaken by the outspoken, media-dominating impromptu GOP candidate Donald...

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Participation as a Grade: Worth It? Yes.

By Raqshan Khan September 21, 2015

My hand shoots up in class. I know the answer. I have been paying attention and understand the topic. Instead of doodling on the corner of my paper, I have been listening to my teacher talk about the difference...

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Participation as a Grade: Worth It? No.

By Dani Egan September 21, 2015

Participation is, at worst, a system begging teachers to grade-bump their favorites, and, at best, grading students on their social skills, rather than what content they actually learned. Furthermore,...

The Monthly Hollum

The Monthly Hollum

By Holly Parkin June 11, 2015

This is it – the last Hollumn. The last time you will ever have to read (and get annoyed at) my opinions, and the last time I will ever write for the Tam News. As a senior on the brink of graduation,...

EDITORIAL: A Two Way Street

EDITORIAL: A Two Way Street

By Tam News Staff June 11, 2015

In the June issue of the Tam News, Sarah Asch and James Finn explored the friction surrounding teachers’ varying opinions on collaboration and how and when to use project-based learning. With Tam in...

A Formal Apology to My Third Period Teachers

A Formal Apology to My Third Period Teachers

By Daniel Carroll June 11, 2015

Dear third Period teachers, I am never more grumpy during the week then at 12:10 PM on Tuesdays and Thursdays. I apologize to all four of you (you know who you are) for releasing my midday frustrations...

A Tale of Failed Flyers

A Tale of Failed Flyers

By Maddie Wall June 10, 2015

As the drought becomes a bigger issue everyday, Californians seem to be thinking more and more about water conservation and what’s causing such dramatic water dissipation. Saving water is an issue for...

EDITORIAL: The True Cost of Prom

EDITORIAL: The True Cost of Prom

By Tam News Staff May 28, 2015

Tam isn’t known for its abundance of traditional school activities; we don’t have regular dances, Friday night lights are nonexistent, and it’s not common to hang out by our lockers in the hallways....

The Monthly Hollumn

The Monthly Hollumn

By Holly Parkin May 28, 2015

A few weeks ago, I went to go see Marvel’s “Avengers: Age of Ultron.” I was, to put it in the simplest terms, excited beyond belief. I had waited since freshman year for the moment when I would once...

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The Real Marin City

By Wanya Williams May 28, 2015

Whenever I walk in to Burger King to buy my daily 10-piece chicken nuggets, it seems like there is always a little white kid breaking his neck just to look at me. Should this make me feel special or concerned...

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