All my 8th grade teacher ever did to me was kick me out of class for misbehaving. lol
Yeah, I mean the idea of sex with a teacher never entered my mind. I had never heard of it.
But my French teacher, Mrs. W, showed me that this problem has been around for a long time. I took French in 81-82. Mrs. W was a big aberration back in the day. Something changed. For sure we can say that more female teachers don't feel as restricted sexually as they used to be, and students are more cued in than I was.
Read an article in Esquire a few years back where this investigative journalist tried to look into the backgrounds of female teachers that end up having sex with their students. He argued that the most common thread was that high school was the best time of their lives. They were in the elite cliques, had power, ran the school, etc. One of the things they controlled was relationships. If they didn't like this boy dating that girl, they would work to break them up - often by seducing the boy and making sure the girlfriend knew about it - and so sex became a manipulative tool habit. When they went to college, they didn't do as well. They couldn't control things or manipulate like they did in HS. Since HS was their favorite time, they choose education as a major, and 4 years later they are back in HS, but they revert back to their 17 year old mentality and forget that they are authority figures with serious responsibilities. This is how that guy says this happens.
Another interesting thing that gets spawned off of that is the hypocrisy that comes out in terms of how we react to this if the teacher is female and the victim is male vs. if the teacher is male and the victim is female. Lots of dads, and certainly other male friends and relatives, will pat a 15 year old boy on the back and congratulate him for making it with a hot teacher. But if it's a 15 year old girl having sex with a 35 year old male teacher, he had better go into hiding or dad + others will kill him. I'd like to say that I have none of this hypocrisy in me, but I had a son and a daughter. If this happened to the son, I wouldn't have congratulated him, but I would probably have handled it with some long talks about how much trouble this could cause him. If it happened to my daughter, I would probably be thinking about doing serious bodily harm to the teacher.
We humans are curious beings.