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Originally Posted by Amnorix

That unequal power relationship can occur in many contexts, and if you're holding grades over someone's head, then it becomes potentially nonconsensual, and therefore rape.

If you interview the student and they're like "oh, no, he/she was totally hot and I was completely down for it. Hell I approached the teacher!" and they're still at risk for jail? I don't see any logic at all behind that.

Legal age by definition means eligible to consent to sex. So the crime is what, exactly, here?



Yes, criminal sanctions. If you want to fire her, that makes perfect sense. It's an inappropriate relationship. If you want to revoke her teaching credentials so she doesn't teach elsewhere, no problem.

JAIL?! Permanent criminal record? Why? That makes no sense at all to me. How



I wouldn't have it include any "civil" remedy either by the student against the teacher, if it was consensual. Where's the logic in that.

Again, the problem is that it's inappropriate for a teacher to have such a relationship with a student due to the power imbalance, but the punishment seems seriously disproportionate to the event if the teacher is threatened with jail.

Precisely this.

If it was purely consensual, there is no crime. Now, from an employment standpoint, what she did is unethical and it should warrant termination.