This isn’t new. I knew of three such relationships back during the 1960s. There have probably always been more than anyone would imagine, particularly female teachers and teen boys, and some teachers don’t restrict their ‘relationships” to one boy or one year.
Which is probably what leads to them being reported...
“This isn’t new. I knew of three such relationships back during the 1960s.”
Same here. It was widely believed (and most likely true) that the cute, young math teacher had a fling with the star basketball player. And one of the English teachers was a flaming homo who routinely massaged the boys’ shoulders and ran his hand through their hair in class. We laughed it off at the time, but he would be arrested today.
My 16-year-old naïve self likely missed an opportunity back in the early 70s. The teacher was not my teacher but a roommate of my English teacher/debate coach. This teacher was an elementary teacher but she certainly seemed infatuated with me when she went along with us on debate team outings. But I couldn’t catch a clue back then...