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The Tam News takes on 2025

By The Tam News Staff, Emerson Swift, Natalie Popper, and Josh Goldman ♦ Mar 17, 2025

The Tam News is striving to make leaps and bounds in 2025 and years to come. Read more to find out what happened in 2024 and The Tam News plans.

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See You at the CCC: How Tam’s Free Resources Level the Playing Field for All Seniors

By Jude Paine, Emerson Swift, and The Tam News Staff ♦ Dec 31, 2024

The under-appreciated College and Career Center at Tamalpais High School is working to level the playing field for college applications. They hold workshops to support students who do not have private tutors to help them complete the complicated process of college applications.

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Yondr Pouches and Student Resistance: The Challenges of Enforcing Phone Policies

By Andrew Ismailer and Satya Schiller ♦ Nov 17, 2024

This editorial explores the impact Yondr Pouches, designed to lock students' phones up during the school day, will have on the school. Andrew Ismailer and Satya Schiller explore the economic and social issues with the pouches, and some alternatives schools can explore.

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Editorial: The Tam News needs two classes next year

By Emerson Swift and Editorial Staff ♦ Jan 25, 2024

Dear Tamalpais Union High School Board of Trustees, We are Tam High students who write, edit, and produce The Tam News and care about the future of this important publication. This past year The Tam...

A culture of misinformation

By Sophia Weinberg, Editor-in-Chief ♦ May 25, 2023

Presently, high schoolers are living in a time of technological advances. Teenagers are relying more and more on social media, and in many unfortunate cases, it is their only news source.

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Lack of motivation for state testing

By Luella Searson, Reporter ♦ May 16, 2023

In recent years CAASPP testing has not been a top priority for Tam students. Students opt out of these tests, creating a lack of participation problem and driving the school's ranking down.

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Editorial: Tam’s Lack of Knowledge on Opiods and Fentanyl Use

By Editorial Staff ♦ Nov 3, 2022

Electronic vapes and alcohol have become normalized among the substances that students who attend Tamalpais High School abuse. But more serious drugs are affecting our broader community, and there seems...

Editorial: P.E. As a Required Course

By Editorial Staff ♦ Oct 4, 2022

While Tamalpais High School students are required to get two years worth of credits for physical education, we looked into reasons why Tam should discontinue the class, at least for Tam student athletes.

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Editorial: E-bike

By The Tam News Staff ♦ Jun 8, 2022

The majority of e-bike users neglect to acknowledge all of the dangers and responsibilities that go along with riding a speedy, motorcycle-like, contraption without wearing helmets or much protection at all.

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