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News, Opinion, & Multimedia for Tamalpais High School

The Tam News

News, Opinion, & Multimedia for Tamalpais High School

The Tam News

Opinion

The Red and the Blue of Retake Policies

The Red and the Blue of Retake Policies

By Franny Kiles and Franny Kiles Oct 16, 2015

As everyone has heard thousands of times, Mill Valley is a very liberal community. However, our beliefs may not be so one sided when we apply these progressive views to policies within our school. Take...

EDITORIAL: Immigration Reform

EDITORIAL: Immigration Reform

Oct 16, 2015

In this month’s feature, Elissa Asch introduces readers to Mesgna Neghasi, who fled his home country of Eritrea in the hope of finding a better life in the U.S. Human stories are too often overlooked...

Saggin, Not Swaggin

Saggin’, Not Swaggin’

By Wanya Williams Oct 16, 2015

Every day, I walk down the streets of Drake and Cole in Marin City and all I see is Hanes, Polo, and Fruit of the Loom. Sagging is like a sport nowadays. More and more people are sagging each day. I don’t...

The Benefits of Waking Up Early

The Benefits of Waking Up Early

By Calvin Rosevear Oct 2, 2015

It’s 6:00 in the morning. My alarm lets out an unfitting happy chirp and I drag myself away from the comforts of my bed and into the shower. The warm water serves as a transition between the laziness...

Graphic by Leo DiPierro

Sausalito Art Fail

By Whitney Howard Sep 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 Sep 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...

Graphic by Luke Rider

Participation as a Grade: Worth It? Yes.

By Raqshan Khan Sep 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...

Graphic by Luke Rider

Participation as a Grade: Worth It? No.

By Dani Egan Sep 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 Jun 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 Jun 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...

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