All students, teachers, and taxpayers in the Tamalpais Union High School District (TUHSD) risk the implementation of a stricter anti-phone policy for students. This policy almost completely bans students' use of phones at school, locking them in a pouch for the entire day. 

If the ~$300M bond by the school board gets passed in November, almost $200,000 of taxpayer dollars (1.2 teachers' salaries in TUHSD) will be spent on YONDR pouches. These pouches magnetically lock students' phones away and can be opened with YONDR brand magnets, which will be located in every classroom. Starting in the spring semester, students will lock their phones in the pouches at the beginning of first period and can only unlock them at the end of seventh period. If put in place, students will lose almost complete access to their phones during the school day, causing: 

• Difficulty reaching guardians in an emergency 
• Unable to contact friends
• Impossible to view many after-school activity-related group pages for information (such as communication related to after or during-school football or cross-country events, etc.)
• Much more of a hassle to use phones for class-related purposes (PE lock forms, calculators, science stop-motions, scanning documents, etc.)

YONDR pouches can also be opened very easily without the brand's magnets. Here are a few student-tested ways: 

1. Neodymium fishing magnets, $7 on Amazon
2. Regular fridge magnets
3. A pen.
4. Brute force (banging it really hard opens the pouch without damaging the phone)

Do you really think that students won't use any of these easy methods to break their phones out? If any pouches are damaged, that means the school has to replace them, and YONDR pouches cost $30 each. Good investment?

The bond measure claims that the ~$300M on the ballot in November is completely dedicated to necessary infrastructure projects. Nowhere in the bond measure does it mention the implementation of locked pouches, which are not a necessity. Please sign the petition to keep the current phone system in place and save students, teachers, and taxpayers from paying YONDR almost $200,000 for ineffective phone pouches.