n, so they chose to move into a regular position that was open so that they would have a permanent job. And so there were a lot of switches like that that happened last year. I think there were like eight to 10, you know. We're working on it. We still have a few to do. Yeah. So Act 127, right? What it does is it adjusts the funding formalism and recognition. Like we said that certain categories require a little bit more to be able to get the same education as everyone else. And what it does is it adjusts the number of students we receive funding for. So last year, right, the state said, oh, you got 858 bodies there. So we are going to give you the equivalent of the property yield for each of those students, which was about $15,000 per student. What they're doing with the waiting system is even though we only have 858 students, because some students cost more than an individual student, they actually, what they do is they just add it up and say, oh, all this additional waiting says is that what we really need to do is provide you with funding for, in our case, about 1,123 students. And that sounds really good, right? Because we have this increase in the number of student bodies we get paid by students in the yield. So if this goes up, it would make sense that, yeah, how much we're getting from the state would go up too. And that's not what happens. I'll give you kind of an example. It should hopefully be easy to understand if it's not yell at me. Like I said, I'm a little tired. So we're going to pretend here that 87.5 million has been set aside from the Education Fund to Fund Education around the state. And we're going to pretend that there are only four districts in the state. We've got us. We've got White River Valley. We've got Central, which is Northfield. Williamstown, we've got CVU. And so they go through their waiting study. And for, let's stop, let's stop. This is their numbers from last year in terms of students. And so what the state would do is add up all those students, right? 5,658 would divide it into here. And they would say, oh, that means we're going to get $15,479 for each student. And if I want to know how much I'm getting, I take this much. I multiply it by my $8.58, and I get $13 million from the iPhone. Make a little bit of sense. I'm talking fast, and I know I'm going to get it right. So what's happening under the new system is the waits. So we've got a lot of poverty students here. And they count more in terms of waiting than just a regular general student within the student population. So they're going to give us credit for $1123, right? White River Valley, they're going to get $3,200. Central, they're going to get $1,400. CVU, they're going to get $2,500. And these numbers are made up a little bit to make the point. If you add them up, you get now 8,223 students. I divide it into the same amount of money because the money in the Ed Fund that you're giving people is still the same. Therefore, we're now only receiving $10,651 per student. You multiply that by our $1123, and now we're getting $11 million instead of the $13 million. And so what happens for a lot of schools is as the number of students goes up in a lot of cases, the yield goes down, the amount of money you get per student goes down. And so the impact on our district, and this is a part of talking about the financial landscape, the impact on our district as far as we can tell, because we don't have all the hard numbers yet, is at best we're going to break even? Most likely we're going to lose a small amount, hopefully less than a million bucks. But what we lose through this exchange if we want to continue to have the same services that we currently have, we're going to have to make up, make it up through local funding. Questions on this? Again, simplified model of what really goes on to try to make the point. But people all got really excited. They got really excited last year. Yeah, we're going to have 1200 students that they're going to be paying this for, so we're going to get this huge jump in now. It didn't happen to most schools. Did the legislators kind of go, oh shoot, this didn't work. So we thought it would be, where are they like? Where are they like? I am going to give my opinion, which is not based on anything other than a quick communication with the legislators last year as they were making decisions about stuff. Going to the block grants for SPED cut money. Doing this. Cut money. So it's backfiring against what they were hoping to do? Well, unless what they were hoping to do was to reduce backfiring overall. So important understandings to walk away from based on what I can tell, my limited capacity and kind of studying this stuff a little bit, is having the weights work in our favor by giving us more students doesn't necessarily mean we'll receive a bigger piece of the education fund. We do expect our funding to go down moderately. Because of this, if we want to keep services the same, we're going to have to make it up at the local level. This is the total enrollment in the OSSD. We typically jump up and down, but typically the overall trend is up over time. But for next year, we are down. We had the event of three months of folks from outside of the community piling on death threats to our students and our staff. And a lot of the folks that left when I was connecting with the guidance counselors about it a little bit last year when school choice came up was about the fact it didn't feel safe. And so we have had a decrease in the total student body. It may recover, right? It's been kind of a quiet year this year so far. Hopefully that happens when we get back up. But this is lowering that basic number that they apply the weighting student. Can you break that down by school like where we lost most was it students in the high school? I'm going to talk off the cuff. A lot of the students who were at the high school, I think we lost 15 last year or coming into this year. Most of them were through school choice and most of them were LGBTQ students leaving from what I remember. Our elementary schools over the course of time attended to an increase outside of the events of last year what we're seeing now. Typically at the high school they're either steady or an increase and they kind of switch from year to year. It's the typical trend. I can't see the numbers. What are the What are the So we were at 8.58 last year we are down 2 years ago what were that really high point that's pulling the line up? We had two of those right? Like I said we tend to because we have bubbles in populations and stuff so a lot of our data looks that way it jumps up and down but the overall trend like I said is still going up. On average even with the two down years if you look at our overall trend we're still on average over the course of time adding about 5 students a year to the district. That's what the slope is telling us. So the question is does this trend continue? We keep going like we are. And it does have an impact on funding because we get paid by kids. So let's see if I can explain this one. There is a new 5% tax rate cap so if next year school tax rate increases by more than 5% it's capped at 5%. But what does that mean? That means that the tax rate the school side tax rate not the CLA portion of the tax rate the school side tax rate last year was $1.39 for $100 of the assessed value. So if you got $385,000 home you can use this to figure out how much your taxes would be. The most it could go up because there is a cap on it it could go up to $1.46. We can actually spend more money to give it up higher than that and the state will give us the money but they are going to fix our tax rate at $1.46. Does that make a little bit sense? They are trying to be kind because they realize the waiting study is going to have a dramatic effect on what people's dollars are coming and going. So they are capping it and saying yeah, if you ask for a million dollars your tax rate would go up to about 8% but we are going to cap it at 5%. We are going to give you the 8% in money but what your tax payer will see will not go above 5%. So that is a good thing. Maybe. That is what we get into the complexities that they put into our budgets. They also did this they said as long as long as, so this is true as long as the per pupil spending is $1 before we hit that limit. If that happens this bet is off. Is that based on how much we spent per pupil this year? How much do we spend per pupil this year? I can go up it was about $22,000. Actually take that back it was $22,000 I believe was the threshold. I can pull all these numbers for you if you ask me. It was closer to like $21,000.  You are stuck for anything over 5%. You are stuck for anything over 5%.  The Spanish Inquisition Why did you do this? You didn't do this you get no benefit from the 5% tax this 5% tax cap for the 5 years and the future that it exists. But there's something about if you don't get the 5% cap it goes away or if you do get the 5% cap it goes away. What was that part? That's what you say if you go over the 10% You can never get the 5% You can never get the 5% for the next 5 years So let's take a look at what you're talking about. What a lot of people are talking about is how can we gain the system because if my tax rate is only going to go 5% but I can actually increase potentially on the student side of things up to 9.99% and not violating anything maybe I'm getting free money here Well as far as I can tell the way that the law works is they put this 5% cap in for 5 years but if you play the game you'll lose because you're going to have a cliff year in the 5th or the 6th year So this is our budget We're about a $24 million budget I don't go over the 5% cap I'm right at the 5% cap every year So next year this is how much we'd have to spend this year how much we'd be spending So this is our budget after 5 years It's $30 million $630,000 Let's say I want to play the game and say well you know what there's 3% because there's 3% there that they're giving me for free and they're going to give me that money and so this is what's going to happen with my spending in the district over the course of the 5 years At the end of the 5 years I'm 5 million ahead of where I would have been but the problem happens in the next year when we move into the next year the state is only going to give you credit for this that's what we're operating our district on now and if going into the next year I want to maintain our level of funding I'm going to have to bring over that 4.6 million to get us up to what we've been spending and that's the cliff and so I'm 99% sure based upon what I've read that this is the occurrence So why I'm bringing this up is as we go through this discussion our best bet as far as I can tell 5% or less now we're going to see a real problem where do we stand just in terms of what I call contractual and kind of mandated increases right so these are things that are contractually mandated they have to happen we have an 8% salary increase that was agreed to with the teaching staff and the union like 85 to 90% of our overall budget is staff salaries so that's a huge number we did a 9.4% increase for the support staff their smaller group has an impact nowhere near as big as the teaching salary well we also had a 16.7% increase to health insurance that's coming into place next year I'll go to the yellow ones in a minute we also, this is mandated based upon the students we seem to be a magnet for special education students probably because we actually serve them pretty well we have students moving in all over the place they said they had 7 when I was talking with RES today the staff at RES that moved into first grade alone that were super high needs so we have to be able to provide the services that they need so we're looking at a 3.25% increase there doesn't sound like a lot but in terms of dollars it is a budget these are two things that I'm going to throw up here and say from my perspective they're mandatory but they could be cut if they had to be I do not recommend it the first one is this 6% increase to the facility supply line right keep things clean to keep the buildings running the way they need to and two additional custodians we've talked to some of the board members as we've bumped into each other the bathrooms and things cleaner we need extra staff to do that so based upon that discussion I'm going to say that that's mandatory and then this is a huge one we went out we were one of the few districts in the state that built a full day free preschool for all 4 year olds and we still maintain our 10 hours a week for 3 year olds two thirds of that program is currently a regular budget one third of that program is still being funded by grants if we want to preserve if we want to preserve that preschool program we're going to have to pay for it out of the regular budget so we need four personnel again it's one teacher it's three pairs it's about 247,000 so questions on these parts and pieces everybody's looking either tired or depressed sorry to tell yes total required increase for mandates and priorities well this is where we are this year this is where we need to be next year just on the pieces we discussed without any of the other millions of dollars of asks that have been coming up from the staff to help them meet the ends as they're working on their goals difference of $1.5 million right up at that we're at a 6.65% increase just in mandatory spending so we're over the 5% of cash yes so we got to do what we got to do but this is the the piece that the board I think either needs to have a discussion or just a lull over between now and when we meet on this in December is where do you want to go with this can I find some tricky ways to try to eliminate that cliff I probably can but we're still going to have to pay that money I can probably spread over paying it up over time but I do worry about that cliff and I'm going to try to get Brad James to give me any answer on whether what I showed you is correct based upon the law I believe it as I believe it was mentioned in one of our conferences is that clear but my recommendation is you know don't go over 5% and if we have to don't go over any more than we have thoughts, questions, tears I'm wondering one way to still keep everyone happy is me, like you said we needed two custodians what if we we could live with what we've got one rather than two and would that bring us down to the 5% that based on their salary and I'm just taking a rough estimate we'd probably go from 6.65 to like 6.25 okay, thanks the biggest piece the biggest piece of that is the 8% increase for staff salaries not complaining, well deserved it's hitting an unexpected budget here the second biggest piece of the overall budget is going to be probably that health care increase, that's huge that's another thing I'm wondering is is that if every person takes the health care plan because I know some people take their spouses or you know decline the health care plan these numbers yeah, but these numbers took into account exactly what people were taking this year Robin did the math so it could change a little bit somebody could have a baby and now you're on the family plan but she used the calculations based upon who's on a family plan, who's on a two person who's on a single so that is factored into numbers so good question not a lot of wiggle room it could be up to 10% do you feel lucky I guess is the question can we expect the preschool program to maintain its size maintain its size, it's serving about 60 kids a year which is about the size of a typical class I'm gonna if there's time tonight if not I can show you some data that will show that it's had an impact because our first group of preschoolers that started in that program and they started in the middle of COVID are now in like grades three and four and if you look at the scores for grades three and four compared to what the old three and four grades were in previous years they're up quite a bit so it's having an impact, which is the intent we had a issue here where there was a lot of foundational knowledge the kids weren't getting from year to year and they were moving on and so I call them the pipeline kids you're in sixth grade, you missed a chunk here you missed so many chunks at this point in time I can't fill in all the holes now and you're gonna have difficult learning what you need to learn in this grade the purpose of the preschool was to make sure that all the kids were starting off with a really strong foundation and we did the curriculum work so that when they're hitting each of the grades along the way they're not having holes so what you should see happening is we're still trying to fill in the holes for these kids here that's what the after school programming is about, but you should see a stronger group of kids coming up from the lower grades and slowly year after year moving their way up into 12th grade was kind of a plan so any other questions on budget I did try to abbreviate these as much as I could next time you get to see everything everybody's asking for and legitimately how the process works is we have our broad goals which are your ends and in which are the goals that we're kind of developing here the principals develop their goals to support them they work with the staff to support the goals to support them and then the communication comes back up they say hey in order to be able to do this this is what we need if we're gonna meet these goals that we're setting these are the resources we need and so that's what you're gonna see next time cause you're gonna see all the ass that folks are saying they need to meet those goals thank you for sharing well I have to say about that that's with great news I mean there's one variable to think about is if at all healthcare does get reformed and changed because the fact that you did a 16 to 17 percent 16.7 percent increase this year is there is question around the state as to why that was so high for teachers whereas the Blue Cross Blue Shield pretty standard but good plan that went up by 7 percent this year so there's like questions around why was that so high of course they lobbied really hard for a pretty awesome plan does the agreement on care board not control that cost also that insurance increase also you know how that works I don't really know how that works so just when thinking about this five year cliff and the rate of inflation is there opportunity for that to calm down and for us to get some more control my biggest fear is if we start cutting down in already a tumultuous education time are we going to are we really meeting the needs of the students so and I'm actually quite surprised that our spending for pupil will go down from the the yield yeah I had full expectation that it would go up I knew that because of the change from reimbursement fund grant funding for special education last year which is also annoying the fact that they implemented 127 a year after 173 is also another challenge for a district like ours which is heavy on special education needs and we got inherently in deep the census block grant is every district got the same amount so we're funding that through taxpayer dollars we lost it was 250 to 280,000 with that change going to the block grant that we had to make up on the regular budget wait a minute they gave everybody the same amount of money ah are you telling us how to ask questions yes because nobody's ever asked a question during that I remember oh yes we have good I'm gonna hold you to it the thinking around that was there was speculation that some districts were cooking their special education needs in order to receive more state funding through the reimbursement process why are they looking at testing because the real again I'm jaded in it watching and hearing the discussions the real goal was to cut they started off with a report they started off with a report that led into this act and it basically said oh you all have too many paras you have too many support staff so when the basis that you're starting from is a belief that you have too many staff trying to serve special ed then the logical outcome is if you put something into legislation the result is to try to force you to cut those things they think you have too much of so there was a logic behind it and the study did not draw a correlation between poverty and special education although I think that study was probably not done thoroughly enough but that's neither here nor there what happened to the state's focus on equity? so they packaged the deal as an equity piece so inherently CVU and STO are going to lose money per pupil more significantly than we are but what we didn't see is a community like ours we thought would have gone up more and it's actually kind of state level and if not go down so who is getting more money? who is benefiting? Concord? later in the valley maybe there are some schools that did they showed a couple of actual examples somebody else has to go up Essex County, Caledonia yeah but we got 40% population of poverty actually our special education student numbers have gone down to 19% and 22% of the district but it's still a large number so we should have seen an increase you would have expected it given those two circumstances but it is what it is furthermore they didn't think about the implementation so the fact that this review board put together yet what you're going to see is you're going to see people go over the 10% you're going to see them go for review and what's going to end up happening is the Ed fund is going to end up holding the bag here I still wasn't clear if you go in front of review when do you have to pay that back is it the same year because that wouldn't be possible if your votes have already gone through would it be the next year are they going to take that alone or are they going to do? I don't think they do either it's a it's just an odd thing this is just a recommendation just for fun is that as we kind of talk about school data there's usually a lot that you can kind of dig in into it a bit in the tops of your minds if you're thinking about this stuff if stuff is jumping out as you a significant ask a question write something down what data was surprising and this is the big thing because it comes back to our ends is based upon what we are seeing you know what are the implications for teaching and learning those are the the kind of comes out of the data review now we because when you're looking at students that are taking tests this year's fifth grade is not the same group of kids as next year's fifth grade and so you tend to see scores jump up and down because it's not quite tracking the same kids from year to year so what we tend to do is we look at overall trends right the stuff can go up can go down can go up but what you want to see is whether it's trending up it's trending down or it's trending evenly and one of the things that is complicated that especially in the state of Vermont is every two or three years they change either the years in which the testing is given right it's no longer ninth grade now for some now in science it's eleventh they've changed the test three times since I've been here right they went from kneecap to S-back they changed the Vermont to the Vermont science assessment and they've also this last year they changed from S-back to what they're calling V-cap now used to be call it cognitive so there's been a lot of changes so the trends do look meaningful the tests do seem to correlate fairly well but it may not be perfect because we're looking at data that crosses the dates of these test lines foundational knowledge ends we're going to look at the ones that we have data for currently that's the the English the mathematics and the science social studies life skills and the arts those are things that may change depending upon our discussions that we're having and so we'll get baselines as soon as we finally settle on what the data is that we want to be collecting current interpretation right is based upon what the board's end is and the board's end for English and these are similar for math and science students possess comprehensive knowledge and a core curriculum in the following areas in this case it's English it's reading writing and communication the interpretation that has existed for a while right how do we know if students are actually meeting the ends you know the thresholds that we set and so what we've said is students achieving proficiency in each grade three through nine are within three percentage points of the state average right in terms of English language arts on the B cap critical end will also be considered in compliance if it shows improvement over time relative to the achievement threshold so in some cases if we're below the state but we're moving towards where the state is at we're still in compliance right because this district started out at a very low place about five or six years ago so here is the LA so explain what the chart means here and this is the district wide performance we're looking at all the kids that took the test in the district so this is the percentage that met the proficiency threshold so in twenty twenty one you know a little bit less than forty seven percent of the entire population of the school hit the level of proficiency or higher everyone that takes the test everyone in the district that's taking the test in twenty twenty two this is where it was in twenty twenty three this is where it was we've got an upward trend and what I can say based upon the slope of that trend line is that every year that goes by so let me see if I can say this correctly every year that goes by three point nine basically four percent more the entire student population is hitting the proficiency threshold in LA so it's not four kids it's not four of her four percent of our entire population every year that goes by is hitting the threshold then hit it the year before where do we compare and can I just ask a question do you pull out students who are special ed students this is everybody this is everybody I do have data because we do like to compare how our subgroups are comparing to the general population because what you want to see that that was the whole achievement gap piece you want to see that gap closing but is everybody taking the test or is it a random sampling per grade this is everybody who took our who took the test we're supposed to get everyone to take it so that the federal law is and this is where things kind of fell apart and trying to compare to other districts during covid the federal law is the expectation is at least ninety five percent of your student body is going to take these tests if you do not do that typically they ding you pretty hard for some reason they seem to leave Vermont alone during covid a lot of districts were only testing thirty forty percent of their kids and so when we're trying to compare to them it made it a little bit difficult because we always hit the ninety five percent should we hit the ninety five yeah we always do yeah there is an alternative assessment for students with significant learning disabilities but we don't choose that that's a sign the team does it and my guess is it's probably about five kids it's a very small number so go ahead if that trend line continues up I mean like obviously the ideal goal would be to have a hundred percent not achievable I would think so where does that kind of where is it reasonable to expect that would top out there's like the idealistic goal getting to a hundred percent which is not going to happen where would you expect our district to get to reasonably so I had this discussion in the very first first end report that I did based upon our current resources based upon our demographics and I'm actually going to compare us to the districts around us in the last slide here because it's some pretty pretty neat data there we should at the elementary level we should be able to consistently hit the 70 percent mark which is high for the state of Vermont and at the elementary schools at least two of them are doing it consistently right now they hit that mark two or three years ago and they've kind of leveled out right around the center the high school my guess is given the resources that we have right now given the work that they're doing especially if they really latch on to the behavioral piece and the cell phone piece so the kids are able to focus in class they might be able to hit 70 but I'm going to say probably in the 60 to 65 range now there's always limiting factors that control what you can do the problem with any natural system is that the closer you get to the potential maximum that hundred percent the exponentially more you have to pay to get there and there's actually a little formula that describes it that I crossed over once and so we used to see that at the other you get diminishing returns you can do it but if it took me an extra million to get them from here to here to get the next five or ten points out of them from this point it might cost two million and then to get the next five or ten it might cost four so that's the balancing but I would say elementary that is more than reasonable high school probably 60 to 65 given current steps so in terms of the state and again we're still looking at English the state is in orange we're in blue two things that are important to see that's going on here we are above the state we started out below the state we did we crossed during COVID we crossed the state so there was a lot of darn good work going on by the teachers during COVID because we were dancing faster than the state was during COVID in fact the state and the nation was pretty much going down but even now that we're out of COVID not only are we ahead of the state but you see how the gap is getting wider we're pulling away from them so we're doing a pretty darn good job there's a piece that's going to come up later and we'll see that the question is going to be is do you know what the event was these scores would probably be actually a lot higher if it wasn't for a specific event that happened last year because what happened last year and you're going to see it in this slide is that who was affected high school they lost a month of learning prior to the test they only made up two or three days prior to the testing a lot of days were graved and then they made up the rest of them after the testing so for the first time what this shows you is how far ahead or behind we are from the state so in third grade our students are scoring 9 percentage points higher in terms of reaching proficiency than the state is right 19 points higher these are down for the first time in a couple of years but it's due to the heat piece I feel like I've never seen the seventh grade be above do you mean they're more down than they're they've always been down do you mean they're more down than they were was that a dip between seventh and eighth grade yeah sixth and seventh we've been working on it but then there was a pretty significant falloff at one point in the middle school yeah prior to a lot of the work what you would see is you would see the scores going up until about fifth grade was a little drop and then in sixth grade it was a huge drop it's whenever they go to the middle school it would sit there for a little while and then it would slowly recover during 9, 10 and 11 yeah it was the middle school and seventh and eighth grade that was why we were pushing at that time having a real middle school concept to try to address some of those issues but no they've been doing pretty well we'll talk about where the difficulty is so what I've done just to make a point here is what they're saying is in this last year you know seventh grade was scoring 15 points below the state eighth grade was scoring eight points below ninth grade was actually three points above that was usually the really tough grade for us I know we can't compare directly and I'm breaking your train of thought but we can't compare directly because they changed tests right but those seventh graders who were sixth graders the year before were not below the line why in the world are they below the line of seventh graders and it's not the heat it's the drop it happens whenever they move fourth and seventh there's usually an actual drop but it happens to everybody right every district but we're comparing to the state and it happens to everybody in the state so why is it why are our kids so much more like so much further below because they lost a month of learning before taking the test to the heat I don't accept that they wasted a month's worth of time with teachers in their well what about the ninth grade like why are they above why if it happened to the high school why are the seventh graders so much worse than the ninth graders here's math which was above last year they're below two when you see a constant change like that across the board it's usually due to a specific event right math did the same thing I feel like I've seen this trend in seventh grade year after year after year is not because of the heat we have a problem in seventh grade every district but if it's every district but we're still comparing to the state like if it's every district then we should still be on the average at the end I'll pull up last year's data I'm happy to do that because this is interesting things to talk about but they did one of the other pieces that supports the theory here is the fact that we did research as part of negotiations one year and the research showed that on average it doesn't mean that every staff member was doing it but on average they were missing 20 days per year at school it's not due to maternity I screened that out when I did the study and everything else on average they were missing 20 days of school a year for personal days and sick days and we threw up on the charts and I probably can still go find them there is a direct correlation between how many days the teachers were missing and the students' performance on the test the schools where the teachers were there the most frequently had the highest scores the school that was in the middle had the middle scores the frequency of teachers being out had the lowest scores I remember that teachers have a huge impact in time with teachers in terms of the students so since these are down from the previous year it's worthwhile to take a look at them specifically and so what this chart shows is this is showing on average during each of these years were grades 7 and 9 to work so in 2019 on average grades 7 through 9 were trailing each grade was trailing 19 points behind the state in 2021 this is where they were in 2022 this is where they were and then they dropped during our heat year if we take this data point out these points are in a fairly straight line typically what happens in terms of trying to predict what the future is going to hold is if the data is scattered all over the place like our population was jumped all around and you got the trend line in there that means you can't be guaranteed that the trend line is going to continue to go up typically when the data cluster is close at least for a year or two you can predict that it's probably going to continue in that same fashion in terms of the data on average they're still catching up for the state pretty well same thing for math same sort of standard for it we want to be within 3 points of the state in terms of achieving proficiency so here are our math scores for the entire district so between 2021 and 2023 we see a pretty healthy increase here based upon the slope of the line what it is telling me is that every year that goes by 7.5% more of our entire student population is hitting the proficiency threshold than did the year before I'd like to get some credit for it in the community but the teachers should get credit for it because the teachers have done the work but the two pieces here so you've got the state in orange again you've got us in blue and you see the same pattern states increasing too but not only are we ahead of the state but we're pulling away from it as time goes on same sort of issue oh there's your preschool grades 3 and 4 math is one that would really be affected because ELA work kind of happens naturally because they speak our language and parents talk to them in that language it's really difficult these are our preschool grades so in terms of grade 3 grade 3 students across the district are scoring 17 percentage points higher than the state 16 percentage points higher in grade 4 grade 5 is still above 3% 6 is above by 6 percentage points and you've seen that same pattern 7, 8, 9 which again is new this year are you seeing grade 4 as the first cohort of OSSD preschool students adding up when we kind of got stuff started and now they're in 4th grade so having that preschool does set them up for really good early learning the folks were actually asking the state folks were asking for this data by the way so that they can go after getting preschools across the state so I'm going to be sending this to you so this is the same sort of thing because we had those down years this down year in kind of 7, 8, 9 we want to see if we can tell anything more about it and so we did the same sort of chart and here we are again 2019 on average in grade 7, 8, 9 we were 19 points below what the state was scoring it has been increasing ever since even with that down here science same deal we don't have as much data on this because they've changed this thing so many buddy times we only test in science in grades 5, 8 and 11 grade 8 has actually been our downfall a lot of times in the data consistently and so we're taking a look at that class making sure it's aligned with the proper curriculum making sure they've got good skills in there but you see it's kind of the same pattern what science is happening in grade 8 now? they do a combined it's a little bit of life a little bit of physical a little bit of earth I believe and then it kind of breaks up when you get into the higher grades we have a disadvantage in science when we compare to the state because 50% of our 11th graders go to the tech center and don't have a science class that year and 11th grade is one of the grades they test science and amazingly this last year the biggest increase in scores and I can pull those out separately if folks want to see it was in our 11th graders they went from like upper 20s to 43% proficiency mark so a lot of the work that Vicki Johnson's been doing to try to make sure the kids are meeting all the standards before they go off to the tech center seems to be working miracles but here we are yet we're below the state we're closing the gap we're catching up so we are in compliance and we're not above the state at this point in time we're closing that gap I love this one White River Valley 2022 was the most recent scores that I could find so White River Valley math right central is Northfield Williamstown this is us these are for ELA and this is science and so what this chart is saying is it okay third grade White River Valley 40.7% of their kids hit the proficiency mark central 37.1% hit the proficiency mark OSSD 60% hit the proficiency mark so we can compare to similar demographics to us if it's highlighted in blue that means you got first place if it's in red you got second if it's in yellow you got third we are outperforming our demographic yellow is worse than red yellow is the lowest Williamstown is a fairly wealthy county no they're north and they're one of the sending districts to the tech center there's a lot of poverty so anyway any questions on next time I would request that you make red the worst I was going back with the ribbons that's what I did with the ribbons third is white which didn't make a lot of sense but on the reports we get red is the worst red is the bad right green is good yellow is caution red is alert so the last piece and I think this plays into conversations tonight and why I'm trying to compel the board to take a look into what was said here is because one of the things that we've been working on is we're trying to develop our public relations model is that there's a lot of mental models that exist out there about the schools staff turnover is high kids are leaving the schools in droves there's positive ones too Brangtree is a really great place to be Randolph's the place for your kids to go if they have special education needs because you do a really good job with them so there's all sorts of mental models but one of the ones that has been out there for time out of mind is this idea that our staff retention is horrible I did the data last year I had even the union sit down with me and go through it and they were in agreement our turnover rate last year was depending upon whether you were looking at just the teachers the entire staff at June 30th when we did it was between 7 and 9% which was a third of what the normal average turnover rate is in the nation prior to COVID so here is what the state is saying because the state rates too on their dashboard and again I don't, as soon as we get the 23 data I'll put this up here too but in 2020-21 and this is when things were hot and heavy because COVID was blaring we were in the highest category they have we were exceeding all expectations in terms of staff retention in 2021-22 we dropped a level to meeting like most districts did state-stated meeting Central was not meeting they had no place to go down the River Valley started exceeding with us and a year later they dropped two places so if you add this up based upon a rubric our score was 7, 6, 2 and 6 higher numbers are better we are outperforming our demographic in terms of staff retention as well which is why when I say these face-to-face conversations and trying to get people to come in and talk there's a lot of rumor that runs around behind normal that's what people do accelerated a little bit sometimes by social media but when folks can come in and talk and have direct conversations we get an opportunity to say hey why do you believe that well this is what I've got would you like to see, would you like to talk about this and maybe we can start to change these perceptions a little bit so I'll get off my horse I appreciate the time questions on getting the data for this last one here directly from the state dashboard what they look at is they look at the percentage of your district where the teachers have been there what percentage of teachers have been there for three or more years but again, people gotta ask questions if you hear something concerning and this is to the entire community so I hope I'm on tape somewhere if you're hearing stuff that makes you concerned ask for a meeting, we're happy to sit and talk with you that's all I got, unless there's questions end data discussion that was it all of it was together right so we need to discuss the need for two recommended policies yeah I had asked let me go back and look at this I talked to Pietro maybe a week or so ago when these things were coming up and asked him to create a model policies for them which I do not have yet but I can talk a little bit with the board about what they are to consider if it's something that you do want to do in the last year or so we've had at least three actual faculty members and then a person related to a faculty member asking for our tech center students to go and do construction work there is potential good there and that the kids are getting skills could look like a conflict of interest and so I think it would be pertinent to have a policy depending upon what the board is leaning are yes we will allow this and these are the circumstances where it's appropriate or no we won't because that way we are fair when people are asking the questions because we have a protocol to follow to give them an answer and the answers will be consistent and so that's the first one that's been coming up the second one has to do with a state regulations in the law not quite matching so under the state regs, the AOE regs if a student wants to change their preferred name they are allowed to come into school the school is supposed to keep it quiet and use their name in the system so that folks know but under the law until the student is age 18 parents have the right and so we are potentially going to be bumping into a problem if we don't have a policy on what we do here because as we are trying to get the parents more involved in their children's education and opening up the power school portal which is where all the grades of the nation is held so parents can check in on their students the last thing we want to have happen is a parent not know that their student is asked for a name change and they open up the portal and there it is so we need to have a policy in terms of what we should be doing should we be telling parents when a student is asking to change the names or should we not PHO is already working on a model policy for the state I've asked them to come in a little quicker for us if you can so those are the two I'm just standing up because it's right in my back to sit so I apologize the RTCC policy is that something I'm trying to figure out at what step we are here are we to decide if we think there should be a policy and if so so if there's no policy if there's no policy I will not approve any of those requests because I have no way to say that I'm being fair which is fine no policy, no request if we decide that we do want to grant this at times we need to spell out under what circumstances and what the conditions are so that it's a consistent choice when people are asking yeah no I check this box check this box check this box all these things match I can say yes to you go ahead and do it you may not even want to take it on first of all personally I am way in favor of it just being blanket no but I also think that on the board level this isn't an area yeah that we should wait into making this checklist of when it's okay and when it and when it isn't because policies their job is just to make things consistent so everybody's treated fairly yeah so actually if the board you know you don't have to vote on anything but if you guys as in general just say now we're not interested then it'll tell the page or no one save the money that's not enough so we'll put a technique as a creative procedure if there's no policy you might have to grant it I don't want to be in a position to grant it because it's not consistent but not having a policy is also a policy yeah right and protocols come from policies you know not making decisions also making decisions yeah right so okay so then I think the policy should be a blanket no I just think this is just too because then because that may be lane standing but if it's not lane sitting in that chair there should be some like there our community should be able to have some consistency consistent expectation I really don't want to stretch it out but I feel like you guys need some examples of what's being talked about like Betty Young went to RTCC and said would you like I'll buy the flooring would you like to install the flooring and I'll make a donation to your Arvos fund and they said no but it wasn't meant to exploit them it was like here's a job do you want it so that's just one example or like I want a shed built or I want this or that and I'll you know what's it going to cost I just bought a business and I want the kids to come up and work there right or going to you know we want a sign made or we want you know can you fix my car you know these things are pretty regular they're regular and they can benefit and they could benefit the kids we just need a way to get that conflict of interest piece out of there if it's possible because one that came forward was someone wanted basically to buy a building for us to commit the students would renovate the building and it was just we couldn't commit to that you know they wanted a memorandum of understanding for the loan and everything it was too much you know so it's a big liability as well right so it's not that we never want student projects that might benefit the community or a community member because it might be charitable work it might be good you know win-win that's where it is it's benefiting the community you can also have a second line there's a 501C3 involved if you think that it's a but it should benefit the community not an individual interesting and the difference there I think is if it's benefiting the community then it's like a project right that the kids are a part of and taking ownership of they're not being hired that's where I'm this feels very much like college athletes that's where I feel like it's waiting into the line is too fine because the intent may not be exploitation but it's right for it yes it is we do have a policy that we're not even supposed to be doing things that have the appearance of a conflict of interest great so there's already a policy on that alright let's move on to the next thing I think we need to talk about this some more maybe not right now do you want me to try to have a draft policy just through what PH pulls here because at least that way it's an informed discussion something to I would appreciate to know that if you doing that policy that it somewhere is that it's benefiting the community and not an individual gotcha like they did the piece in front of the fire station that's benefiting the community or a community building structure but I don't like the idea of it being like come build a shed at my home especially if it's an employee because it looks like it's favoritism even if it's an individual right it could be somebody who has connections somewhere not a small dog not a shed at the rec center or rec field that's going to benefit the community to have a structure there are yeah it's going to have to be very specific I'll make a donation for free labor and we also have other well the supplies would have to be supplied by the individual who's requesting the work to be done yeah but it's still free labor so isn't this going to run right up against automotive like automotive relies on having people give their cars for the students to work on but they pay for the service who gets paid the tech side but not the students but they have to have a broken thing to work on to learn to I'm going to be really simplistic here to learn to build you can be given the materials and you learn to build to fix there has to be something broken so it's a little now I'm just making up exceptions and this is why less things have changed in the last couple years they charge for the service just like when you go to the auto shop I really think it's a conversation for another night great well then whether or not we have a policy to start the discussion off of next time from Pietro I'd like it on the agenda anyway for us to continue okay great um down um so thank you board monitoring all those in favor of tabling monitoring 4.4 until next time we will have two policies two months alright the report on the BSVA I do feel like we touched on a little bit with the health policy budget that's the big thing so Lane gave us a little bit of an introduction Tuesday you'll have more in depth and we shall discuss again so I don't mean to go overboard if you really wanted to get out about lunch how was lunch it was dry approval this is the consent agenda we have minutes from the regular board meeting on the 11 corrected minutes from the regular board meeting on the September 13 those two can be together in my opinion and the other two need to be separate I do have a change to one minutes but it's from the executive session it just had 2013 on it rather than 2023 and that's his fault that's the one from the month before that didn't make it into the packet but the one the one that is 1011 here oh wait 1011 right but this is the one previous we still have to correct the date it was the one from the oh 2013 sorry yeah I thought you meant the month it's a good year so you want me to check Sam's date yes going forward please thanks Kyle does anyone have any other updates to minutes great I'll entertain a motion to accept those two so moved second thank you Chelsea all those in favor I thank you passes unanimously so I'm not asking for a post members of the sabbatical committee we need a board member we do we need a board member there's one Kyle did give me copies of one of the requests from a faculty member but I don't think that's relevant in terms of if you're going to be on the committee you have to appoint all the members so the Sheikwin and Matt Revy were the two teachers and then Melinda Robinson was the administrator that stepped out the teachers were chosen by random from those that were interested so we need to approve those and also appoint one of us and no decisions have to be made by that committee before like February and my guess is it's a one hour meeting we don't approve who they have already on there as far as teachers we just appoint a board member to join right you're supposed to appoint the whole committee I'm giving you a recommendation of who to appoint in terms of those three people thank you for clarifying it does say honor before February 1st who wants to sit on that is anyone interested in sitting on that one one hour meeting to choose the winner do we have to make any cuts or anything like there's more than one request for a sabbatical so yes you would be saying no to some people but you'd be saying yes to one oh I forgot to say that there is a cost for the sabbatical right we don't have time to not be here and then we have to pay somebody else full time to cover their position that was in the budget so how many people have requested three so far well they have it only until November 15 two have put in the actual paperwork the third one has expressed their intent I thought in the past it was a first come yeah because it was always only ever one but I think it was like a stated strategy that was the first person to ask gets it so is this the first year we've had more than one person first year we've ever had more than one yeah and I think we added language that it would benefit the district yeah this says it was contract language so it was something we tried to I don't remember if they accepted it or not you'd see it in the contract if it was well how come this says contract language well the work of this committee would be to decide which one is most beneficial to the district like if someone is just taking it because they just want to go on a cruise that's not as beneficial is it maybe something academic I'm very tired the committee would decide what it's you would decide as a committee what you want to consider you know is it seniority is it benefit to the district I have no part oh thank you Hannah thanks Hannah I think you need a motion to afford this hold so moved sure you don't want table this way we have a motion and a second for it to be Melinda Robinson Reby Carlton, Colin thank you and me all those in favor opposed thank you Hannah thank you stay thank you Hannah okay I'm keeping you to that one hour though okay I'm kidding PA upgrade to RTCC Reserve Request so they they're in a position where we had upgraded the high school and now we're in a position to be able to upgrade the PA system within the tech center it's a safety issue not to have it in case there's a lockdown called anything like that they don't have a real great way of communicating we're trying to have them compensate right now with the radios questions they gave one of the sponsors there at the conference had a cool system is there any around where kids with communication yeah so there's the flashing light the strobes you'll see yeah because they're going to need a visual cue it's a safety issue why didn't you cite EL 2.0 as satisfying EL 2.0 as part of your reason for we had it covered with the radios it's not ideal but it's right but you're asking for this money not only because you need to get the boards of but also because it's meeting the requirement of keeping the staff so so we should be getting that in here in this monitoring report that says global all say 2.0 and of course this so you're saying for in reason to add it into yeah let me think on the timing of it of when it became an awareness something's about to shut down when you need that that's Heather oh it is it was the board itself yeah I'll take me and Sam but there there was so well I'm just saying that for me I just think we need to be a little bit more specific to why you know oh there's plenty of money in the fund alright let's just spend it but if we want to be a little bit more the reason behind it is he has to keep everybody safe and that is in one of our main policies so you ought to be citing that I'm I'm getting this system I apologize to miss me but he's supposed to be telling you what to put in there so I'm not disagreeing with you I'm asking if you want the request to come back to recovery just amend it so to be clear we're monitoring we're spending this money he's giving us a reason the reason is in order to keep our staff safe they need to have a decent yeah so this would just be evidence so it's yeah it's evidence and it's the policy move with the amendment to include policy 2.0 which would be right that is unsafe yeah I have a motion do I have a second I think Sarah won that one all those in favor of approving this request opposed unanimous great superintendent's report we've read it do you want to there's incidental from our we meet every two weeks with the union they are interested in opening up discussions about how conference days are managed and so I wanted to throw that out to the board to see if the board has an interest I promise them that I would do that no that's the management issue that's how I feel about it let me shut that down it's fine with me it's a potential change in working conditions which would affect their CDI isn't this the negotiation the proper response if that's the concern is this should be handled in negotiation they were asking for a half day off before that was for half days for conference days conference days used to be a full day off they feel like they don't have enough time they need two half days again I feel like these things have a time and a place to be brought up and every single meeting to have this come to us is not the time and place to have this brought up we also don't set the calendar and that's all that's right no but like I said the reason it's technically a negotiation a little piece is because it falls under what we negotiate about working conditions salary, school day that's my feeling but I want it I want it to be from all of us if that's the case because I'm the one that's going to they're going to go back and say he doesn't like you because he didn't approve it is anyone concerned with that so it might help if at the meeting they're there and they're asking it we have to at the board we can it's negotiations and I did offer to say what we could do because that was the reason I put the email up on the board I asked them to negotiate it with us two negotiation periods ago because it was an issue and there was no follow through but I think we might be able to work out the language before negotiations so that it's sitting there and ready and so that we can just go in and say yeah that's what I'd like to spend the time on alright I appreciate that that's what you want financials they're good we should have spent like 67% of our budgets at both tech center and high school now off the top of my head we still have over 80% of both budgets still left so we are well on the black there's been a lot of spending out of facilities for a lot of like I said older building so they haven't over spent you know their budget yet but they're a little bit ahead of probably where you'd like to be right now what's the reason for being so far behind on the benefit which piece like you're saying that we should you just said we should have spent X amount percent right now why aren't we so far understanding probably because we have staff it's kind of like the grants you know if you couldn't hire staff right off at the beginning of the year and say we hired them in November right we have money there because we planned it out for the entire year but we lost two months that we didn't pay them for because we didn't hire them until November we couldn't hire them until November so that's a big chunk of it that makes sense how I'm explaining that we got money for this much but that's in the budget but you didn't come into here so this is money that's not going to get spent this year would be my guess off off the cuff with a lot of it other questions great okay action items I'm just going to throw some out here and in Chelsea please reach out to Ben if you would to Sarah you and I have some annual agenda edits to make Chelsea you and I will reach out to Pietro please send any edits to the letter to the community to Katya please register for the training next Tuesday the 14th at the VSBA website ENDS committee please let's meet and include Anne Sylvie's committee schedule something with Bob and Wes entertain a motion to move into executive session with or without guests I just have a question about it though so we have guests listening for the first item are we guests for the second item no so I moved to enter executive session with Lane and Heather joining us for the first portion of executive session and then for only for the second part yes that's what I'm saying moved by Katya seconded all those in favor aye okay 10-08 we are moving into executive session


Oh look, it's our friends. So guys, a week ago or whatever, I don't know, maybe it was two weeks ago, I did a video where I went to the drug store and I found a bunch of hair products that I wanted to try out. I wanted to try it. I wanted to try it out. I liked a lot of them, I didn't like a lot of them. And a lot of you guys were a little upset about the dry shampoos. The Baptiste dry shampoo, everybody loves. I didn't like it, not your mother's dry shampoo, I didn't like it. So today I'm gonna be picking out about 30 dry shampoos. 30? Yeah, a lot. I wanna give them a fair try, you know, a fair shot. I'm gonna see which ranks supreme among them all. Who is the finest dry shampoo of them all? We'll find out today. I'm right, I'm on his YouTube channel. Let's go. Let's go. For today with this one. Oh, I spent nearly $300 on dry shampoo today and I feel good about that. Oh my gosh. There's every brand you could possibly imagine in here. Every drug store dry shampoo I could find in New York City basically. So I'm here to help you today. I'm here to test them all for you so you don't have to waste $300 trying them all. And we're gonna find out which one is the best overall that works on brown hair and blonde hair because there is a big difference when you're using dry shampoo on brown hair because usually it like turns the hair white. We'll see what happens, but I'm excited. I love getting experience with more products. So we'll try each brand. We'll figure out which one is the best from each of those brands. And then we'll go through all the rest of them and we'll compare them all side by side and see which one is the best of the best dry shampoo. And if you guys didn't see my last video where I tried drug store hair products, I tried a lot of different products in that video. It'll be like below also. But in that video, I tried out this one, the Fiber Full Dry Shampoo Foam by OGX and I absolutely am obsessed with it. I've been using it ever since. And I won't be comparing this one today to any of the other ones, but if you like foam dry shampoos, this is bae. But otherwise, I'm gonna be comparing all aerosols today. That way I keep it fair. And I'm so stoked about it. So let's do this. I'm gonna grab my Miss Mini Queens today. Let's get testing. Wow, so this looks mad creepy. Welcome to my shop. So we have our two mannequins here. And as you can see, they both have different hair, one brown, one blonde. Like I said, they both have very, very greasy hair. I did douse their hair with oil before this. That way they're nice and prepared to take in some dry shampoo. And we can really try and see what happens when your hair is very oily and you use these dry shampoos. So let's do this. Let's first start on the blonde one and then move to the brown one and back and forth and back and forth. And let's get testing and see which dry shampoo is the best. Okay, category is Not Your Mothers. They are cool. I didn't test this in my last video, but I'm willing to give it another try. I didn't exactly like them last time, but a lot of you have a lot to say about that. And we're gonna do it again because I believe in second chances, all right? Okay, so the first one we have here is Not Your Mothers. I just said that. Refreshing dry shampoo absorbs excess oils, fresh volume leaves no residue, and it's the unscented one. So also let's read the directions really quick. Shake vigorously, spray generous amounts on a root, throw out the hair if needed, work with fingers, brush through to fuse the powder, and watch absorb excess oils, style as desired. Okay, shaking vigorously. I know it doesn't look like I'm spraying very far on camera. I swear girl, I'm spraying so far away in real life. Okay, and there is a white residue. Okay, I'm gonna say it really helps when you brush it. It really helps get rid of that white residue. I definitely still see it. And it definitely absorbed the oils without giving it too much texture. Sometimes the dry shampoos give a lot of grit. So that was decent. Now let's try the other one, see if there's any difference between the two. This one is the original. So this is the unscented and this is the original. So it's the same formula with different scent. Maybe this one's more pleasant. I really didn't smell, literally there's no scent to that one, which I really enjoy. Okay, this one, yeah, kind of gross scent. Kind of nice though. I'm actually having a way better experience with this, this time than last time. Not your mother's, I'm so sorry for the last review I gave you. It's actually not a bad product. Listen, I apologize. It really helps when you brush it out. Really not bad at all. I'm kind of shook and it didn't really leave a residue, really absorbed the oils. Okay, listen, it was good, but I'm not sure yet if it was the best. I'm very shocked that I liked this one because I really did not like it last time. So weird. We saw I worked on blonde hair. I mean, that's the easy one, right? Let's see what happens when we do it on a brunette lady right here. I mean, it is quite a white cast, but let's see if brushing it out really helps a lot. It like works nicely, but for some reason it's like the hair fibers are getting little white dots all over them. And if you kind of like really rake it out with your hands, it gets rid of them, but it's not bad. Like I'm not saying this is a bad product. Like I'm actually quite impressed with it today, but let's try the original one on the other side and see how this performs. They're both pretty much the same with different scents, except they mustn't change something in the formula to get rid of the scent completely, but pretty much works the same. I mean, it works, but the residue ain't cute. Not my favorite. Overall, so far, these are decent. I'm gonna say that I judge this brand's strategy and move too hard in my last video. I have changed my mind a bit. Still not so impressed with them. I feel like we can definitely do better. I'm gonna bring the unscented with me to the next round, and I'm gonna leave the original behind because I definitely prefer the unscented better. I think it actually works better. And the original scent, not really a fan of baby powder scents. So, let's move on. So, the next category is a big one. And it's a controversial one, because last time, last time, last time I reviewed this one, y'all weren't happy with me. And I saw that coming. I knew that was gonna happen. I really did, but it's Betsy's turn. And we have a lot of different options here. Here we are. Let's start in the blimey again and move forward. So, here's our first section, and we are gonna use the volumizing one first. It removes oil to give hair show-stopping volume, with collagen added into it. It says shake well, hold it 12 inches away from the head, massage and brush through to refresh and volumize. Okay, seems to be a theme. We should shake these all very well. All right. I actually really like this nozzle on this. Ooh. Ooh. Wait, they're not all like this, are they? No, they're not. Really like this nozzle. It's like a jet. It's like a jet stream of dry shampoo. Okay, this actually smells really good. Not much of a residue. Okay, hold on, Betsy say. Again, judge them very hard on the last video, but I also didn't use this one. If you spray it at all too close, you get white. That is sort of normal with dry shampoo, but sometimes just leave less of a white cast than others. Oh, oh. So, if you're looking for to give you volume, girl, I don't feel any volume in there. I don't feel like that added anything. I mean, any dry shampoo will give you a bit of volume because it's adding basically powder into your hair and it's acting as like a fluffer in your hair. But overall, whoa. Impressed. Really great nozzle. I love good nozzles. This is definitely some stiff competition, but I'm kind of shook about that one. Okay, this is the clean and light bear version. Get the award-winning dry shampoo in a clean and light fragrance and won't overpower your perfume. Ooh, girl. There's dry shampoo on everything in my studio right now. Okay, so immediately this one has way more of a cast of white. It does brush out again, but yeah, pretty much the same thing. I feel like the other one feels a little bit softer or something. Also, girl, this is not a light scent. This is highly scented. Definitely doesn't compare to the volume one. I don't think any of these are, but let's keep working through. This is called light and breezy fresh. This is also a different scent. So right now we're at this point, we're just trying scents. So let's keep trying the scent. I don't know, can we just go through this faster? I don't, the scent is like too much, man. This is the tropical version. This is coconut scent.  But otherwise, I'm gonna have to say no on this one. This is the original, which I used my last video. And let's smell this one again. Oh my God, look at my phone.  I hope you can see that on camera. Oh my God, my table is covered in like snow right now. Look at this. This is great. Awesome, okay. Okay, actually, this one isn't bad. The scent is pretty nice, light and clean. Let's pull the dark medican and quickly run through this one. Gotta really, really make her hair a lot whiter. Let's keep going. I don't know, this is a little, not very good for dark hair, but we do have one for dark hair that we're gonna try. That was one little squirt.  I'm very far away from the hair, okay?   The volume one I like, I just, it really let the white cast again. But they do have one for brown hair. So let's see what happens when we use this. Okay, wow. So the dark hair one, divine dark, is really, really good for dark hair. We're gonna bring these two to the next round and Vettice, you are, how are we doing it today? Let's move on. And category is, stub. I didn't really know dub made hair products for a while, but now I do. We're gonna try the detox and purifying dry shampoo first. It's refresh hair and absorb oils with no visible residue. We're gonna test that. So this one really claims to have no residues. Well, let's see what happens here. I mean, I see a residue. It's definitely not a bad residue. Kind of a weird fragrance. Definitely lose the hair soft. Okay, I do like this one. I think it has a very, very strong fragrance to it, but let's keep trying other ones. This is the fresh coconut one. Let's see how this coconut smells like. Okay, we'll say this one leaves much less of a residue than the other ones I tried. So I will give them that. However, I do like the coconut one better than the detox and purify. The smell is a bit better. And lastly, let's try the volume and fullness. This is just supposed to give you a little bit of volume and fullness. Okay, they all kind of smell like candy. I'm not exactly feeling any more of a grip on this one than the other ones. The only difference in the ingredient list is silica on the volumizing one. And I looked up what silica is. Apparently it's supposed to rebuild your hair. So I guess it doesn't exactly just give you volume right away, but it's more of a timely thing that maybe you'll get more hair if you use this, but I kind of maybe don't that. I don't know. It doesn't seem like the worst thing in the world. Okay, now let's try it on the brown head and see what happens on that one, because most of you guys have brown hair. Okay, so this one definitely leaves really no residue on brown hair. However, it doesn't exactly evaporate the oils as well, but I'm willing to sacrifice that for no residue. See, this is actually really great. There's none of that clumping going on, like Batiste had. This is really, really good. Now let's just try the volumizing one over here. Okay, really, really impressed with Dove here. I'm gonna go with this one, the voluminous dry shampoo. I decided I really like the scent of this one, and if they're claiming it'll rebuild your hair, I'm all for it. Alrighty, let's give the tea tree mint one a chance. It has peppermint oil, tea tree oil, and witch hazel. This dry shampoo instantly absorbed oils and enhances style with an invigorating scent. Not really into tea tree, but if you guys like mint, maybe this is your girl. Immediately it's leaving much more of a cast than a Dove one. Actually kind of into the mint scent. It's very different for a dry shampoo, except I feel like it's a little intoxicating, and it's like, why would you want your hair to smell like mint? Pretty nice though, like not bad. Now let's try the next one, which has coconut oil essence of tight hair. Okay, so it's coconut and vanilla scented. Huh. I definitely like this one better. It actually worked quite nicely, but I know it doesn't come across on camera very well, but you can see little clumps of white in the hair. I don't know exactly what in the formula makes that happen, but for some reason that didn't happen with the Dove dry shampoo, which I'm very shocked about. I thought they were all gonna do that. Let's give it a shot in the dark hair now. Okay, heavy residue on that. Ooh, no girl, that ain't it. Uh-uh, uh-uh, uh-uh. Let's try the other one. No, okay. The coconut oil one, not too bad. It leaves a heavy cast and those dots in the hair. But we're gonna take the coconut oil one along with us on this ride, and we're gonna go and get rid of this one. All right, so up next we have Pantene. This is the Pro-V dry shampoo. No water, refresh. Takes your hair a fresh look, even on the second day. And this one is the volume one. Let's see what the difference is in this one. Let me read this again. Oh, Pantene. What's going on here? This one's for volume, and this one's no water refresh, but they do have the exact same ingredients. Unless I'm crazy, maybe one has less of something, and I don't know, but seems like they just changed the packaging maybe. But let's give them a try. Wow, that actually worked very nicely. It's not like a luxury smell and you're not paying luxury at price, so I totally get that. Just not my favorite smell, but not bad. And let's try the other one, which is just the regular one. This is the volumizing one, and this is the regular. Wow, these are actually really good. Okay, let's move on to the brown hair. So it didn't leave any residue on the brown hair. I really like these. They're a bit more of a wet formula. You can feel that there's more alcohol in these, which I tend to like because it does a good job of drying out the hair without leaving the white cast on it. I really like this. I'm gonna go with the volume one. Quite impressed with Pantene here. Next is one that I have never used before, but it is called Hasks. We have four different types here, and let's get to it. Let's try them out. We have the coconut, which I found that I don't really like these ones, but we will give this one a try. Just reminds me too much of like going tanning when I was younger, like just unhealthiness. No cast, no residue. Love that. Let's move on though. Don't like this scent very much. This is the purifying dry shampoo. And this one has charcoal and citrus. I love charcoal and citrus. Ooh, quite a nice smell though. Hardly any residue. Like this. This is the volumizing one. This one has chia seed oil. So for whatever reason, this one is just not really like absorbing the oils very well. I don't know. This one acted different. Maybe it's just me, but didn't really like that one. This one has biotin in it. This is the thickening one. Guys, spraying biotin in your hair, not gonna make a difference. You have to consume biotin. But we'll see. Again, not really absorbing that well, but these ones do by far have the best sense out of any of these products. So if you're really into scents, maybe go with this line.  This isn't working at all. Really disappointed because the scents are really nice.  Nah man, this ain't it. I mean, we'll keep going, but like this ain't it. Ew. Your scents are great, but holy residue. Not pretty, clumps up, does not even absorb the oils really. I'm gonna have to say, I don't really wanna even bring any of these into the next round. Like I really don't like these, not impressed. Okay, up next we have Tressame between washes. Okay. Quite a strong scent. Very nice. Ooh. Girl, they got good chemists on these. Those never ending budgets. Ooh. Nice. Fruity, pretty clean smelling, kind of nice. Doesn't leave a residue on the blonde hair. Let's try it on the dark hair now. These work quite nicely. Doesn't leave a residue until you brush it out, but that's fine. But it doesn't like clump up. It absorbs oils nicely. I like this. Let's keep this one. This one's good too, but we can only take one. All right, so we have completed all of the different brands that we had. And now we have one offs of everything. We have seven more to go. I'm gonna run through this really fast. Let's complete this. Let's try the next one out first, Dry Shampoo Refreshing Mist with Pearl Extract. I feel like I keep spraying this one and nothing's really happening more. A little bit of residue, not much. I feel like I'm having to spray a lot of this on for it to do anything to the hair. I don't know. It doesn't really seem to work that well. Toss this one. All right, and now we have the Aussie Clean Volume Dry Shampoo made with Australian Seekalful Cleansing. Dude, Aussie's killing it. It's the one that has more alcohol in it. It wets the hair a little bit and kind of like can really smell a more alcohol-y-ness thing coming off of it. I'm going crazy. I've been sucking these fumes in for an hour and a half now. It pretty much left no residue. It smells nice. Really love this. It's just staying with me. Okay, up next is the Herbal Essence, Volume White Grapefruit and Mosa Mint. Same thing, you guys. Really nice. This has like a mint scent to it. So if you don't like mint, probably not your girl. But really good.  We're going to now try the big sexy hair Dry Shampoo. Okay, so I do like this one. It's pretty good. The scent, however, could really use an upgrade. It does work nicely. It doesn't leave a residue. Definitely don't hate it at all. Just doesn't compare scent-wise. So I'm going to have to get rid of this one. Just not as good, you know? Okay, I feel like this is definitely one that you guys have been waiting for, which is the Volume and Fulness Dry Shampoo with chia seeds, cloudberry, nourishing weightless, normal to oily hair. And a lot of people live for this stuff. So have seen better. Left to cast. Left those little dots all over the hair. Smells like kind of bad. Nah, dude, not for me. Sorry. Up next, Swap. So I'm proven dry shampoo. I can't even read anymore. Actually, I never could read. Observes oils and freshest hair between washes. Let's give it a trot. Wow, very strong citrus smell. I really like citrus. So I'm going to say I like that one. Whoa, really nice. Like this so far. Yeah, not as good on the brown hair. Do you like the scent? Works good on blonde hair, but overall not like the absolute best. So for that, I'm going to have to get rid of this. All right, and our last and final 20 dry shampoo. This is L'Oreal Long Wear Dry Shampoo. Refreshers in extent sal and absorbed oil. Cool bottle. Let's give it a shot. This one literally isn't doing anything. Not a ton of oil absorption. Like, pretty much nothing. Not into this. Let's toss this one. And here we have the final nine. This one kind of doesn't really count. We'll talk about it in a second. These are what I picked. We have Tressam, right? We have Ogies, we have Betty's Day. Surprise, surprise. We have Pantene, we have Dub. We have Not Your Mothers, also a surprise. We have Herbal Essence, and we have Aussie and Betty's Day over here. But again, we'll talk about that in a second. Here are my top picks for best drugstore dry shampoo. Oh, took a little break. Everything more clear-headed now. I'm gonna order them on the table here from least expensive to most expensive. Okay, so here we are. Least expensive, all the way up to most expensive. So this is quite interesting. Aussie, $6.29.  Pantene is $7.99. Dub is $7.99. Not Your Mothers is $7.99. Herbal Essence is $8.49. Tressam is $8.99. Betty's Day volumizing is $10.49. Betty's Day Dark Brown is $10.99. And last is OGX, and it is $10.49. Now, these are all pretty good prices for drugstore brands. And with drugstore brands, you're not always getting premium quality, and that is why they can bring down the price a lot. But if you are trying to fall on a budget and you know you can't afford salon quality, which I do ultimately recommend salon quality, but I know that everybody doesn't want to splurge on that all the time. Let's reorganize them based on how much product is in each of them. Okay, I have reordered them from the least amount of product to most amount of product in the cans based on fluid ounces. Let's do the reveal now. So this has the lease, which is 4.3 ounces. This has 4.9 ounces, I'll see. This has 4.9 ounces, this has 4.9 ounces. OGX has five ounces of product. Dove has five ounces of product. But T-Stay has 6.73 ounces of product. But T-Stay Brown has 6.73 fluid ounces. And lastly, Not Your Mothers has the most product, which is seven ounces of product. As you can see, these were the two cheapest products and they are one of the three with the least amount of product. So that makes sense to me. Tresame with the least amount of product and up there on price point. I'm gonna have to say, I'm gonna get rid of this one because $9 this much product doesn't compare to the other ones.  This one keeps falling right in the middle, kind of like a medium price point and a medium amount of product. So I'm gonna say that one's pretty great. Now the OGX one is in the middle of how can you have less ounces of product and be more expensive? Though the packaging is quite beautiful and it sends quite nice. So I appreciate this brand, but for today's experiment, we're gonna say it's not the totally best option in my drug store. Okay, so now this one is so dope. I'm feeling like I know what my favorite is. I don't know. Dove, one of the least expensive ones and has a lot of product in it. So this one is gonna go forward. Baptisa actually is kind of expensive, not actually expensive, but compared to these products, it's expensive. But it also has nearly the most products in it. So I'm not mad at that price. I really like this Nozzles. So I'm gonna put this one forward. That was a stand up for me. This one is great for brown hair, but I'm gonna have to, you know, only take pick one Baptiste product. We're gonna keep this volumizing one. It's better and it works on brown hair too. And lastly, this is cool. This one has the most product in it, but this one has seven ounces of product, huge can. I like this one, except definitely had more residue than these other products. So I'm just gonna have to say maybe not today, but a great product. All right guys, so overall, these are gonna have to be my top five picks. I set out on this video to pick one, which is the best, but these are my top five drugstore and dry shampoo that I really, really enjoyed for all different reasons. I mean, this one has a nice alcohol formula. This one I believe did two. And I like that because it doesn't leave any residue at all. This one also did two and it has a really nice scent and it's a little more natural. This one has a great price point and great amount of products in the can. I just love this one because of the nozzle and it worked quite well. And I feel like you can find this in a lot of different places. So these are my top five picks for drugstore and dry shampoo. Ta-da, these are them. All right, hopefully you can find one of these at your local drugstore. And that is all for me today. If you guys wanna see me do another one of these videos where I test out some other kind of product, whether that be shampoo, conditioner, anything, let me know which one you wanna see and I will do it. I will buy 28 more products and spend my entire day testing it again for you. Give this video a like, please, if you enjoyed it. Don't forget to follow me on Instagram, BradMundoNYC and my brand X-Mundo Hair. For updates on new product launches, come see me, I swear I'm working. I'm working really hard over here. And thank you guys so much for watching today. Don't forget to live your extra life and I will see you all next time. Peace.


ನೇರಿಸ್ ಕಾರಿಯರಿನಿತಿದಿಯಾ ಸಿನಾಕ್ತುವಿಂದ ಳೂಯರಿಗತ ವಾಕ್ಯಾಷ್ ಽ್ನದವೆಯಕಂಪಿಲಿಲೆತಿದಿದಿದಿಹರಿಲಿಯರಂತಿಯದಿರಿದ ವಾರಿದಿಟಿನಿತಿದಿಯಾಡಲಿದಿ ಕಾರಿಯವ ಕೆಟೆಜಲಂತಿಗೆ ಆಸ್ನೋ ವೂಪುದೆತೆ ಎಂರೋ ಇಗುಲ್ಡಿದೆ ಎಂನ್ನೋ ಸೀಗಿರೂಗಿ ಎಂಜ್ಸ್ತಿ ಎಂಮೋನೋ ಎಂಳೋನಿದೆತೆ ಎಂರೋ ಎಂಳಾರ ತುರ್ರಮೈ ಎಂಗ್ರನ ಮೆತ್ತಾರೋತೆ ಎಂಪುನೋ ಎಂ� ದೀ ಑ನಿಗಚೀ ಕೈಗತ ನೆಂತ್ಯದಿ ಕುರಾ ರಾನೆನಿ ಕಾನ್ಯದ ವೈನಸ್ಲಲದಸಿ ಕದ್ಲತರಡಿ ಅದ್ರಲಾ ಕಾನ್ಳನಿಸೆ ಹತ್ತರಹನಲ್ ಕಂತ್ರಸಿ ಅದದೆ ಕುತ್ಂದ ಕಂದ್ರಿನು ಕದ್ನಿದೆ ಕಂತನೇತ ಕ� we will be able to take up this child for surgery and then we will be able to locate the nerves which are injured and then bridge them gap with the nerves taken from the leg and once we do this the process takes 5-6 hours and then after that we put the child in the plaster because we don't want the child to keep moving child is not the one who is going to listen to you so that's why we put the child in a plaster for 3-4 weeks so that the time when softage healing takes place post-op care we keep them in the hospital for say 2-3 days that's good enough and then once the child is fine we discharge them by the third day and then after 3 weeks we remove the plaster and then we call the child for regular physiotherapy that's most important very very crucial that's called a hand therapy or a physiotherapy where we get the child to do the therapy that's very crucial because once you connect the nerves it takes minimum of now 6 months to start the improvement in function and then it goes on for 1-2-3 years it can start improving so this child on exploration had a evolution of the 5-6-7 and there is a rupture of these roots so we had to take an autograph from the leg and then bridge this gap and repair we do what we call a complete brachial plexus reconstruction so now the child is going to school when the child is playing normally he is happy when he is looking at the right hand movement he is very happy I am very proud of him he is using the right hand completely when he is looking at the right hand movement he is very happy when he is dreaming he is using the right hand that's what we call a hand therapy when he is playing normally when he is playing normally when he is doing everything I am very happy I have been doing these brachial plexus birth surgeries at Manipula Hospital in Malaysia where we got the latest technology the best equipment the best staff to take care of this children excellent anesthesia team for over a decade now we have been treating these children at Manipula Hospital in Malaysia and very happy with them they follow the treatment and then they care of the child so there is nothing to panic about it and then there is a high potential for recovery and then the children they do well it is just early recognition early treatment is very important so we are taking Manipula taking Pratyabhru Hospital taking Dr. Sindhati Narasho we are taking the staff here to cooperate with them let's help them out you are very thankful to Bharat Sarge Manipal team you are very thankful to Mr. Patanik