teachers and students having sex.....?

Question

there was a case of a teacher having sex with a student who happened to be 18 at the time. I believe she should have been fired because she abused her position. I don;t believe that she should have been prosecuted though since the student was 18 and legally of age. What is your opinion?

Answer 1

I don't agree completely. It's a fantasy for many. Like some will sleep with their boss because he has a dominant position.
At 18, you know what you're doing, no doubt.

Answer 2

The teacher only abused her position if she used her authority to manipulate ior force the student. If sex is acceptible between consenting adults at 18, then it is acceptable. If there is nothing in the law that is against it then the teacher has not committed a crime and therefore has done no wrong. We in the west do not have moral or religious courts, we have courts of law based on a legal system which uses and tests by the specific rules of law.

What you are saying in effect is that two adults must check with their job descriptions before having sex. If the teacher had abused her position, there is a clear route for redress in the courts by the student involved, not in a witch hunt by "outraged" possies and moral vigilanties.

Answer 3

Quid Pro Quo...a person that uses their position of power over another to get what they want...i.e. a professor sleeping with a student (albeit of legal age) in exchange for a passing grade.

I think she should have been prosecuted and fired. What kind of an example is that to the other educators and the people funding education. As if teachers aren't paid horribly enough, they'll be less likely to get raises because this kind of stuff is rampant. There'd be more sex had then lunch at school!

Answer 4

I agree with your position.
Also what is it with the double standard, when a teacher who is a man has sex with a student he is locked up and the key is thrown away, but if a woman teacher has sex with a student she is slapped on the wrist, sent to jail for only 6 months or so.

Answer 5

Was this in high school or in college? If high school, loss of job and possible prosecution becuase who was there to say that this didn't begin when the student was a minor? If college, teacher should be fired or reprimanded but not prosecuted.

Answer 6

Are you at all familiar with Will and Ariel Durant? The two of them wrote a multivolume work of scholarship entitled "The Story of Philosophy". It is still the standard for the history of human thought. Will Durant was a professor of philosophy at a major university. Ariel was one of his students. They began their affair while she was still one of his students. She did graduate, and they married. He nearly lost his job because of an affair with a student, but the university relented because Ariel was 19 at the time (he was 37 at the time). When Will died at the age of 93, they had been married for 56 years. Is it always wrong?

Answer 7

the student was 18 so that is not the issue but as far as being fired that was really not called for those were 2 adults and what they do is their business your job should never tell you who you can be with that is communist

Answer 8

18 is legal, so I don't think the teacher abused their power. I personally don't think it's a big deal as long as it's kept out of the classroom.

Answer 9

Where were all these hot teachers when I was going to school?

I can't believe any guy would turn in a teacher who would make love to him and give him an "A" too.

What is wrong with these guys today???

Answer 10

i f the student is 14 and over waht the f u c k by that age we knew very damn well what we were doing and what we wanted unless it was rape , stop making the student look like a victim