Please can you quote these laws. (You suggest that a boss cannot marry a subordinate for example.)
As a teacher for 31 years, with students aged from 10-23, I have never been advised of any legal requirements about relationships with them apart from:
Legal? After the student has graduated and moved on, maybe. Oprah had a show once about teachers who married students. The audience seemed very approving, but these teachers had insisted the students finish college before they would even date them. I think some corresponded and that sort of thing, but it was totally hands off. The students never wavered and despite a big age difference, they took it from there and it worked out.
But people may start to think a relationship was in progress even while she was in school, especially if she graduated from high school last month. Even if they couldn’t fire a teacher for it, a school could probably start evaluating the teacher with a microscope and find something else, fire him/her for that.
A few other AoC remarks:
One brother, who was living in Texas, told me that his 17 y/o didn’t come home one night. He figured she was out doing the nasty with her bf, so he called the cops. They said she was of legal age and they really couldn’t do much about it. But he was responsible for her till she’s 18, so they basically took the info and told him they wouldn’t look for her but if she remained gone a few days to check back.
A different brother told me about a case in Illinois (my home state) where an older guy was involved in a sexual relationship with a young girl. He videotaped them (she knew he was doing it, consented) and showed it to friends. Having sex with her was legal because she met the AoC for that, but she didn’t meet the AoC for a porn film. I suppose he could have watched the kinky film all he wanted but when he started showing it to others, that qualified as distribution. He’s in prison now for child porn.
{ex teacher here - both High School and College}
IME, HS teachers do not date HS students. No exceptions. If you do and it is ‘legal’ you will still come under intense fire from the administrion and the community. You will get fired…and quickly.
My experience teaching college was in ‘smaller’ towns. Even there, dating a student (not one of yours) was extremely frowned upon. Dating ANY student, even if they were not in your class or were in any of your classes was frowned upon.
Since the college was the only one in a large geographic area, it tended to get most of the younger adults going there. This was one of the 2 main reasons for my leaving teaching…when I took the job I was seriously dating a woman that was from the area thinking we’d eventually get married. When we broke up, I was single in a rural area with most of the people of my prime dating age as students (either full or part time) attending the college. When I had a complaint lodged against me for just asking out* a 24 year old (I was 27) I started seriously looking at what I made and what the situation was and got out. When I was informed by my boss (Dean) that I did nothing wrong but that I shouldn’t ask people out anymore (and he was very sorry and knew what he was asking of me) I definitely decided to leave teaching - the low salary and celibate/childless existance didn’t seem to have much of an upside anymore…