A Position of Trust
The question is, should it be legal for teachers or lecturers to engage in sexual relations with students over 16? After all, if they had met each other anywhere else, they would have been perfectly at liberty to enter into such a relationship.
If you can pick out the relevant bits in the legal jargon found here and here, you'll find that, as it stands, teacher/pupil relations are punishable by law.
This was brought to my attention after a teacher at my local college was suspended without pay for having an affair with a 17 year-old nursing student (studying at the same college).
Any thoughts?