"Age of consent" has nothing to do with why teachers are prohibited from having sex with high school students regardless of their age. It has to do with liability resulting from an unequal power balance between teachers and students.
As I noted before, until the past couple of decades, this conduct wasn't illegal at all. It was only when there was concern over lawsuits that such behavior became criminalized:
For about five months, Paschal, then 36, had a consensual sexual relationship with the female student at Elkins High School, according to court documents. The girl had been a student of Paschal in tenth and eleventh grades, and she later became his classroom aide and offered to babysit his children.
The two began their affair in 2009, when she was a senior, and Paschal was arrested the following year.
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The issue presented to the court hinged on "Paschal's fundamental right to engage in private, consensual, noncommercial acts of sexual intimacy with an adult. We hold that it does," the majority said
Oh, horseshit. It has to do with appropriate boundaries, with teachers not showing favoritism to certain students.
The judges dropped the ball on this.
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