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Another female teacher incident

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1SEIACLONE said:
They have the discussion in closed session and then come back out, and on the record have the vote, which has to be part of the public record. But there is no discussion in the open session.

So any dirt on the person would have been discussed in the close session, they just do not want that to get out to the public.
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Exactly. They won’t hold the discussion in open session. But it doesn’t sound like they made their decision in open session, according to the story. It almost sounds like they made their decision also in closed session and decided not to record the resignation in the minutes. If that is the case, that is illegal.
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Another female teacher incident

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Kinch said:
But they can’t vote on personnel decisions in closed session which is what it sounds like here.
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They have the discussion in closed session and then come back out, and on the record have the vote, which has to be part of the public record. But there is no discussion in the open session.

So any dirt on the person would have been discussed in the close session, they just do not want that to get out to the public.
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Another female teacher incident

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1SEIACLONE said:
Most personal decisions would be made in a closed session, which is legal, not sure if they voted on what to do, or he just resigned ahead of it. Freedom of Information is so far behind in cases they will never get caught up, which is just what the right wants, for their decisions to never see the light of day.
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But they can’t vote on personnel decisions in closed session which is what it sounds like here.
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***Official 2026 World Cup Thread***

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cycloneman003 said:
This is largely because there are almost ZERO elite athletes that aren't specialized in one sport by high school anymore. Once in a while you get a football/basketball or football/wrestling dual-sport athlete that could go either way at high level. It's not necessarily a good thing but, unless you're an extreme outlier, kids have to pick a sport to specialize in year round by like 12-13 to have a shot.
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True. I just don’t think those kids are choosing soccer as their sport.
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BryceC said:
I’ve coached a lot of soccer.

I never played at any level. There literally was nobody else to coach the teams.
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I was the assistant coach when my daughter was younger. I was basically the "set up the obsticles" guy. That and since I am into working out I was responsible for conditioning. Other than that I had no idea what was going on. Then I moved her to VSA for better training. They had a coach from South Africa and another who was from Kenya. I was just like "Ok these dudes at least sound like they know soccer better than me"
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cycloneman003 said:
The cultural growth of a sport can take a LONG time and progress is not always linear and easy to see. Issues with the US youth sports systems aside, there is real tangible growth in popularity for soccer in the US.

I think continued growth of the domestic pro leagues is the key to everything. MLS popularity is blowing up (attendance viewership), salary growth in MLS makes it comparable to second tier European leagues (English League One, 2. Bundesliga, La Liga 2, etc.) and keeps young talent in MLS until they can make the move to top flight clubs, MLS franchise valuations where the top teams are becoming as valuable as some of the bottom end of NHL/MLB, growth of MLS youth system (MLS Next Tier 2 --> MLS Next --> MLS Next Pro --> MLS) to provide a real development pathway from U13 to pro-level. USL system as a real viable league that is expanding and going to promotion/relegation model in 2028, that can put pressure on MLS to keep getting their **** together and hopefully considering pro/rel model as well.

The sport is also just booming in popularity among youth too. Kids are every bit as obsessed with Messi/Ronaldo/Mbappe as they are with major NBA/NFL stars. Hell in my town just outside of Madison, WI soccer is THE sport. Kids hardly care about football or basketball, but they are competing for state titles (and winning quite a few) year in and year out for both boys and girls soccer.

Also don't discount the influence of massive latino population growth in the states. That cultural love of soccer isn't lost at the border and will be a big part of the growth of the sport.
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I have my doubts on the last two paragraphs but would be cool if true. I don’t follow high school recruiting that closely, but I haven’t seen a 5-star football or basketball player opt to play soccer instead.

I really thought there would be substantial movement in U.S. soccer after the momentum of 2010 and the advent of how dangerous football is, leading parents to push their kids more to soccer in the fall. But that hasn’t really materialized like I thought it would. Or it’s going slower than I thought it would.
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***WBB: 2026 Recruiting Thread***

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JimDogRock said:
The highlight videos look to be from when she was playing on the Chinese U19 team in the summer of 2023.
I don’t see that she has played any sanctioned basketball since then, so this is a wildcard addition to our team at the post position where we badly needed another piece for depth.
Very exciting to get her added to the squad and see what she can bring.
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Internationally sanctioned you mean? She just won a CUBAL championship with her university team like 2 days ago.
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StClone
She is in training but there may be more current info out there:

On March 18, 2025, she won the championship of the Northeast Division in the 27th CUBAL Chinese University Basketball Association League. On July 25, 2025 (local time), she won the gold medal in the women's basketball event at the 32nd World University Summer Games with her team. In December 2025, she participated in the National Women's Basketball Training Camp organized by the Chinese Basketball Association. In January 2026, she joined the team's training as a non-roster member to prepare for the World Cup Qualifiers.
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Zhang Xiao

Zhang Xiao attended Xi'an Tie Yi High School. In 2023, to bolster the inside depth of the Chinese U19 National Youth Team, she was urgently recruited to the team without any joint training.On September 21, 2021, in the 19-and-under women's basketball 5th-8th place classification match at the...
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***Official 2026 World Cup Thread***

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Clonehomer said:
Because we have generations of experience teaching those sports. Soccer is essentially the only team sport not to have originated here.

But, if you look at baseball or basketball, the gap between the US and other nations is shrinking faster that we’re shrinking the gap in soccer.
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We didn’t invent hockey, or golf, or track and field, or gymnastics, or women’s soccer. Baseball is rooted from England. We’re still one of the best countries in all those sports.

I would argue the rest of the world has barely caught up to us in basketball. We still dominate international competition in both men’s and women’s. We aren’t dominant in baseball, but are still one of the best countries in the sport. And we have a larger head start there than any other sport.
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