Current Events > teachers should have the right to have sex with their students

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says alabama judge.

https://news.vice.com/story/teachers-have-the-right-to-sleep-with-their-students-alabama-judge-rules
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Alabama...enough said
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I mean they don't get paid much so some perks might help with recruiting.
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...not exactly?

The ruling states that in this case there is no clear evidence that these particular school employees were in what would be considered "positions of power or authority" over the legal-aged students they had sex with. One of them wasn't even a teacher.

If an 18yo has sex with a teacher, but she's not in that teacher's class, then that teacher doesn't really have any authority over her. They can't change her grades, or give her extra leniency or preferential treatment. There's essentially no advantage for that student to gain from the relationship, nor leverage the teacher can use to manipulate the student into sex.

It's still a felony for a teacher to have sex with a student in one of their classes. Or a principle to have sex with any student in his school. Because that is clearly a position of power and authority.
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The South.

Aristoph posted...

...not exactly?

The ruling states that in this case there is no clear evidence that these particular school employees were in what would be considered "positions of power or authority" over the legal-aged students they had sex with. One of them wasn't even a teacher.

If an 18yo has sex with a teacher, but she's not in that teacher's class, then that teacher doesn't really have any authority over her. They can't change her grades, or give her extra leniency or preferential treatment. There's essentially no advantage for that student to gain from the relationship, nor leverage the teacher can use to manipulate the student into sex.

It's still a felony for a teacher to have sex with a student in one of their classes. Or a principle to have sex with any student in his school. Because that is clearly a position of power and authority.

Makes sense to me.
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Aristoph posted...

...not exactly?

The ruling states that in this case there is no clear evidence that these particular school employees were in what would be considered "positions of power or authority" over the legal-aged students they had sex with. One of them wasn't even a teacher.

If an 18yo has sex with a teacher, but she's not in that teacher's class, then that teacher doesn't really have any authority over her. They can't change her grades, or give her extra leniency or preferential treatment. There's essentially no advantage for that student to gain from the relationship, nor leverage the teacher can use to manipulate the student into sex.

It's still a felony for a teacher to have sex with a student in one of their classes. Or a principle to have sex with any student in his school. Because that is clearly a position of power and authority.

Not that I don't agree with what you're saying, but...

By that logic, any teacher having an affair with a student could request the student be removed from their class, and problem solved. I think they consider any authority figure within the school to have "power" over anyone in the student body. Which is why I'm pretty sure there have been cases of this exact scenario, where the kid doesn't even have said teacher, but it is still made out that the teacher has authoritative power over the student.
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N3xtG3nGam3r posted...

Which is why I'm pretty sure there have been cases of this exact scenario, where the kid doesn't even have said teacher, but it is still made out that the teacher has authoritative power over the student.

Sure, but in this case the judge claimed that that "authoritative power" was not proven to be there. So basically it was just two legal-aged adults having sex. Still maybe a bit weird and might give people that "icky" feeling, but not actually necessarily wrong.
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