It's high schools mentality parallels like this that cause me to give 99% of your replies zero attention.

Are you actually stupid enough to compare students with employees, or the workplace with a high school?

Maybe you should have spent more time in school trying to learn something, and less time ****ing your teachers.

Hey no need to hate...

Hey, Sandy Vagina, you said "people in authority." Don't get your panties in a twist because I called you out on it.

A boss holds a lot more power over an employee than a teacher does over an 18 year old high school student.

Completely untrue.

A young person has a lot more chance of being influenced by an authority figure than an employee in a workplace.

You're just pissed because I blew your argument out of the water, dipshit.

The issue is that the students here are of consenting age. We're not talking about kids. We're talking about LEGAL ADULTS.

So the question is, should we treat teacher-student sex all that differently from, say, employer/employee sex, or psychatrist/patient, doctor/client, etc.

Clearly in each case such conduct should be a fireable offense, and/or loss of licensure. I could even see it being a relatively minor crime for teacher-student, but 20 years is beyond bananas. This isn't pedophia. It's 18 year old boys -- old enough to vote, drive, join the Marines, etc.

So people who are bad influences for people that are 18 should be jailed?

Exactly

For crissakes, it's not "a young person". This isn't a camp counselor diddling a 10-year-old, or an old crony boss telling his young secretary to get on her knees if she wants to keep her job. It's a horny 28-year-old banging some horny 18-year-olds. As Saul stated, it's inappropriate and fireable, but let's not start selling colored ribbons for people to wear in support and memory of "the 18-year-olds who had sex with their teacher". They weren't "influenced by authority", they were influenced by raging hormones and a half-decent twentysomething who offered to let them fill every hole like they were spackling a wall for papering. Nothing to see here, move along.

Uhh....what? If you're talking about a 14-15 year old kid....sure. 18 year old? Not so much.

So 27 year old teacher boinks 18 year old student once (in theory, that's not what happened HERE, I know, but that's what the law is) and could get 20 years of prison time and that sounds about right to you?


Sorry, but that's ****ed up.

18 yo + 28 yo = OK

18 yo student + 28 yo teacher = 20 years

Show me what ill effects that are different between these two equations and point to the ones that should take away 20 years of the 28 yo teachers life.

She should be fired and shouldn't be a teacher anymore. Prison, or even a criminal record? No.